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Laura T

@ltintcky.bsky.social
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Suburban Virginian by birth, rural Kentuckian by residence. Gov’t worker, gardener, old house renovator, book fiend, dog & cat & boy mom, Gen X, post-menopausal, tilting leftward with age. Ryan Blaney (#12) and Bubba Wallace (#23) fan during NASCAR season.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 30/09/2026
Meta tells investors its AI is a tremendous success. It tells the IRS its data centers are an experiment that could fail. Why? Only experiments qualify for this tax break. Meta is exploiting it, labeling its proven chips "research" to get a $4B tax break.
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Charles Booker @booker4ky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mitch McConnell got the care he needed without worrying about the bill. Every Kentuckian deserves that same peace of mind.
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Bluegrass Politics @bluegrasspolitics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tomorrow the Lexington Herald-Leader will lose a lot of great journalists, including most of the people who have been covering Kentucky politics and state government for us. Here's a too-quick summary of our losses, and yours. ^JC
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Laura T @ltintcky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tuberville is a fine one to be ranting about deranged fetishes.
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Once again: Revenue growth through tax cuts is a mirage kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/23/o...
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Once again: Revenue growth through tax cuts is a mirage • Kentucky Lantern
Nearly two years ago, I wrote in this publication that the Kentucky General Assembly’s faith in income tax rate cuts as a vehicle for generating revenue was a mirage.
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Laura T @ltintcky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do not understand people enrolled in Informed Delivery or whatever it’s called who see they’re getting a piece of mail and then call or email whoever sent that mail to find out what it is/what it’s about, rather than wait until the mail is delivered and open it, like a normal fucking person.
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Tessa Duvall @tessaduvall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Alvarado campaign won't put anyone from our staff on its mailing list, so I'm sure Cheves would appreciate fellow Kentucky journos forwarding that kind of thing his way. Had he known, he would have attended Alvarado's presser on this very topic.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
T.P. SQUAD They’re cops. And they’re gonna wipe out crime. ABC Thursdays 9pm, this fall!
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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
📣 Now Hiring: Events, Conferences and Marketing Administrator (12-Month Fixed Term) 📣 Salary: £23,500pa Contract: Full-time (34.5 hours per week) role for a fixed 12-month period Application deadline: Friday 25th September at 1pm Please visit our website for full details and how to apply.
A poster with the background of the building of Gladstone's Library framed by flowers. Along the top reads 'Work With Us!'. The text reads: Now Hiring: Events, Conferences and Marketing Administrator
You will work across the breadth of the library to deliver strong administrative support for our group bookings and events programme. We are looking for someone with an eye for detail, excellent communication skills, who is highly organised and proactive. This a full-time (34.5 hours per week) role for a fixed 12-month period with a salary of £23,500pa. www.gladstoneslibrary.org/about/work-at-gladstones-library/
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A Texas woman’s family is suing doctors and state officials after she died when unable to get an abortion. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban. bit.ly/4hb57tY
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Family of Pregnant Woman Who Died After She Couldn't Get An Abortion in Texas Sues
The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 17/09/2026
Shelbyville tenants launching union against Lexington property management company From @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/17/s...
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Shelbyville tenants launching union against Lexington property management company • Kentucky Lantern
Tenants at several properties in Shelbyville owned by a Lexington-based property management company are launching a tenant union to make demands on a range of concerns they have on unresolved maintena...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I just got a frantic call from Allison Statham. She's the mother of Haley Oliveaux, the girl Chris Duncan was wrongly convicted of killing. She says the police are now at her door and demanding a DNA sample. They're threatening to arrest her.
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The framing of Chris Duncan: Part Two
“God doesn’t let innocent babies die for no reason. Somebody has to be punished.”
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Laura T @ltintcky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As others have said, let’s get PE out of veterinary care as well. I was astonished to discover recently how few vet practices in Louisville AREN’T owed by PE.
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The Richmonder @richmonder.org · 14/09/2026
Investigation into RPS ‘bite’ video found employee had no teeth www.richmonder.org/investigatio...
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Investigation into RPS ‘bite’ video found employee had no teeth
Internal investigators found no evidence that an instructional assistant at Fairfield Court Elementary School bit the hand of a student.
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John "Drew" Williams - US House Candidate, KY-01 @williamsforky1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Have you ever met your congressman? In Western and Central Kentucky, James Comer has been in Congress since 2016 and hasn't held a single open-to-the-public town hall in since 2019.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
IMO, the solution should not be to browbeat people into an old standard, but rather allow people to wear whatever they want. If someone can wear ducky pajamas in public, you can wear tailoring in any cut, color, and material. As options open up, dress can then be a source of pleasure.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Well, senator, I realize *you* can't stop thinking about middle-schoolers private parts, but I happen to think the cratering economy and murderous state goons killing people in our streets are more important than the sanctity of a damn swim meet or whatever you're prattling on about today"
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Charles Booker @booker4ky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In honor of Andy Barr’s new ad, let's run back this gem.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 10/09/2026
Keep hedge funds away from journalism at all costs
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 10/09/2026
Unfortunately, very crappy news today from me, on the McClatchy hedge fund gutting Kentucky's second-largest paper 👇
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Charles Booker @booker4ky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📣 We’re hiring! Team Booker is looking for Kentuckians who know their communities and are ready to organize from the hood to the holler. Head to our site for more information.
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Charles Booker @booker4ky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We know what’s possible when people come together, believe in what Kentucky can be, and refuse to settle for more of the same. This is our moment! Together, we can end political corruption and bring lasting benefits to Kentucky!
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/capital-is...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It’s taken an unconscionably long time for the Democrats to truly reckon with the post-1980 changes to the American economy. But we're starting to see a broader attack on the oligarchy that those changes brought in, Harold Meyerson writes: prospect.org/2026/06/08/j...
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Encircling the Royalists - The American Prospect
Democrats finally show up to the class war.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Why should my tax dollars go to giving houses to people who can't afford them?" Why should MY tax dollars should go to satisfying your desire to see desperate people living desperate lives? I'd rather save money and solve the problem, rather than spend money to exacerbate it.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
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Charles Booker @booker4ky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Replace Mitch McConnell. Retire Andy Barr. Flip the U.S. Senate. Deliver for Working People. That’s the mission.
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Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli, & Brix @bunsenbernerbmd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Can’t handle it. It’s too much. 🥹❤️ 🎥 Brix is wearing a hat and riding in the backpack.
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Tessa Duvall @tessaduvall.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Laura T @ltintcky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Evil Smile Evil
ALT: Evil Smile Evil
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Cardinal News @cardinalnews.org · 03/09/2026
6-year legal battle ends with restitution for families who claimed discrimination by Smith Mountain Lake campground
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6-year legal battle ends with restitution for families who claimed discrimination by Smith Mountain Lake campground
" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/cardinalnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/DSC_1265-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C519&ssl=1" /> The owner said she wouldn't have rented to the two couples if she'd known that the group included a Black man, according to their fair housing complaint. Each has been paid about $417,000. The post 6-year legal battle ends with restitution for families who claimed discrimination by Smith Mountain Lake campground appeared first on Cardinal News.
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Laura T @ltintcky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I am so very, very tempted
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Laura T @ltintcky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The only monarch I respect. 🌱 🦋
A tiny monarch caterpillar with black, white, and yellow stripes across its body and black horns at each end munches its way across a butterfly milkweed leaf. A lighter green milkweed seed pod stands perpendicular behind the leaf.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 01/09/2026
This Lexington-based company just registered and hired the biggest lobbying firm in Frankfort. It's the new company of Jonathan Webb, who previously founded AppHarvest - the Kentucky agribusiness startup that took off like a rocket before it exploded.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
An absolutely essential @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social piece. I want to share almost every sentence on here. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-can-ig...
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You Can Ignore the Bad Pundits
One easy trick to make yourself smarter.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-can-ig...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” - Wendell Berry
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do?” --Wendell Berry
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A Blog of Their Own @blogoftheirown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in peaches, Wendell Berry. And because I am not as well adjusted as he: God dammit, cosmos, take the destroyers and leave us the artists.
A Meeting

In a Dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far,
and yet he is the same
for the dead are changeless.
They grow no older.
It is I who have changed,
grown strange to what I was.
Yet I, the changed one,
ask: "How you been?"
He grins and looks at me.
"I been eating peaches
off some mighty fine trees."
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wendell Berry was a giant. He understood that ecological destruction and capitalism’s worship of limitless scale were not separate problems, but were a single moral wound. He built a moral universe in which land, work, love, and community all belong to one another. As we belong to one another.
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Laura T @ltintcky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Oh, no, RIP Wendell Berry.
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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm just now getting to this bit of data journalism from last week, and this graph really needs to be sat with. They're going for the law abiding immigrants because that's how numbers go up. The "worst of the worst" has been flat from the start. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
graph of ICE arrests of people with violent convictions, other convictions, pending charges and no criminal charges. No charges is a huge spike. Violent convictions is flat.
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Charles Booker @booker4ky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A Sunday message
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 30/08/2026
They changed it.
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Michael Jackson Enjoying Moment
ALT: Michael Jackson Enjoying Moment
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Sarah Davis 🤫 Bubba fan | 23XI stan @sarahdavisagain.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Bubba asks to confirm he's locked in... Freddie confirmed, driver locked in the chase. "Alright... Let's go race." - Bubba
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Louisville Public Media @lpm.org · 26/08/2026
The decision by a Jefferson County jury clears the way for LDG to build the long-stalled affordable housing development in Prospect. www.lpm.org/news/2026-08...
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Prospect ordered to pay $36M to affordable housing developer
The decision by a Jefferson County jury clears the way for LDG to build the long-stalled affordable housing development in Prospect.
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Laura T @ltintcky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
All kinds of wildlife in the tomato patch tonight. 🌱
A small yellow and black bumblebee hanging out on a tomato leaf. A green hornworm, covered in white capsules of parasitic wasps, hangs upside down on a tomato branch.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 25/08/2026
Nonstop Dolly on WFPK Louisville, for those inclined
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LPM Music
Louisville Public Media (LPM) is an independent, community supported not-for-profit corporation serving our community with three distinct public radio stations and an investigative unit: 89.3 WFPL New...
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