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Laura Toffenetti

@ltoff.bsky.social
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retired teacher, writer, quilter, native flowers fan, Senior advisor to Rohingya Culture Center in Chicago which provides support to Rohingya refugees who have fled the genocide in Myanmar.

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Laura Toffenetti @ltoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” Trump wrote. This should get us all to stop AI. If he’s for uncontrolled AI then we know it’s another mess he got us into.
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Helix @girlnewsie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Stop trying to create life, by burning things that are already alive. stop trying to invent intelligence, when intelligence is everywhere. stop trying to give credibility to the grifters who we know are building these machines with apocalypse as their goal.
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Helix @girlnewsie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
more and more and more i find myself feeling like people are wishing for intelligence to be magic, instead of a series of complex processes that are equally as traceable and predictable as an algebra problem.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 15/09/2026
Domino Theory — A cartoon by Nick Anderson
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵
A group photo shows about 35 people, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina Anderson; Ivanka Trump; Jared Kushner; Tiffany Trump; and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

Little Pipe Cay/Lux Hospitality Bahamas; Laura Gordon Photography via Instagram; Laura Gordon Photography
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Laura Toffenetti @ltoff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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This Will Hold (@thiswillhold)
Excellent messaging from @David Hogg. We should absolutely do this.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Image
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the-astro-stud @the-astro-stud.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Y'all they tryna sell Sunlight now, we can't have nothing 😭
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Goodnight 🌙 Here’s a little lullaby… pure brilliance 🎶 🎶🎶 Enjoy!
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Laura Toffenetti @ltoff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
localhost:60100/story/267724...
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17/07/2026
Now ICE’s contractors are shooting protesters. (this is Colorado)
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/07/2026
Donald Trump is suffering from dementia. Someone needs to step in before it's too late.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026
funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.
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Helix @girlnewsie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If you're in the twin cities, you can celebrate my birthday by bringing cash to Smitten Kitten, by helping your neighbors pay rent and buy groceries, and protesting the closures of sidewalks and overpasses and greenways. protect our unhoused neighbor.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
He fell asleep in a meeting with Turkish President Erdogan, referred to Iran as the "Islamic Republic of Japan", TikTok as "Tic Tac", President Zelensky as "President Putin" & once again demanded the U.S. be given control of Greenland. He's much less dangerous while sleeping than when he's awake. 💤
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The sheer injustice in Houston is sickening. Lorenzo was just going to work to support his family when his life was stolen by ICE. Seeing his father on his knees, consumed by raw, agonizing grief, is a heartbreaking reminder of the human cost of systemic violence. He deserves justice.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
It's not easy being meme-d. #Oh-Gee-I-See-Algae 👀
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Laura Toffenetti @ltoff.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I have a question. The physician that does the physicals for our president should be held accountable so that they have to tell the truth or our held in contempt. Does HIPAA protect the presidents health issues? Congress should subpoena the Doctor and demand the truth or hold him in contempt.
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Laura Toffenetti @ltoff.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The video prove this ain’t no blink
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Laura Toffenetti @ltoff.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Absolutely
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Helix @girlnewsie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
ok but we're taking the whole Mississippi River with us, along with its associated watershed, and also as an added requirement Joe has to eat glass
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Katherine @wordwatcher.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
There is no word in the English language to adequately describe the anger and frustration and disbelief that Americans are feeling….
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Laura Toffenetti @ltoff.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Go to the actual site. Disgusting. This administration has ruined this country.
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Laura Toffenetti @ltoff.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
49 years ago? I saw it when it first opened at Graumans Chinese theater. The line went around the block and starting right from the beginning the audience roared! But 49 years ago??? How old am I???
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We Geek Girls @wegeekgirls.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
‘Star Wars’ was released on this day 49 years ago! (May 25, 1977) Directed & written by George Lucas. Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, Alec Guinness & more. Poster Illustrated by Tom Chantrell #OnThisDay
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Helix @girlnewsie.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
and then go play this demo because it's been about two months since I started writing code for this video game and it's gonna be a banger and I would really like more people to come with us on this journey of discovery
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Evernight by cempoaloon
A lo-fi game about healing from community trauma (and also it's a farming sim)
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Helix @girlnewsie.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
just realized it's been about nine years since I realized I was trans eight years since I released my first ttrpg seven years since my first ttrpg convention six years since my first kickstarter five years since aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa anyway go play this game if you think you might be trans
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Cracks in the Mirror by Helix Sparrow
A quiet, thoughtful game about exploring ancestral memories
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Laura Toffenetti @ltoff.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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Don't Look Now, But American Civic Life Is Reawakening
Good news for your Sunday!
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 20/05/2026
A Path to Justice — A cartoon by Nick Anderson
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Barton Gellman @bartongellman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Was your flagpole damaged January 6?
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Mr. Speaker—Bullying trans kids: -Won’t end this war -Won’t address the economy -Won’t make us more free It will only hurt our kids. Which is why we are a HELL NO on this bill!
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Laura Toffenetti @ltoff.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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PTSD Nation?
Have we given up on a central goal we sought to achieve more than two centuries ago?
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Lifa Moreno (she/her) @hellyeahlifa.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Heya neighbors, I just got my June rent invoice. Wanna help me pay it? That'd be rad.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
THANK YOU David Letterman & Stephen Colbert for a lifetime of smart satire, laughs, speaking truth to power & sending us to bed with a smile on our collective faces. You will be missed. 🙏 #EndOfAnEra
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Quite impressed with this young leader.
Screenshot of an X (Twitter) post by @NYCMayor from Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani claiming his administration inherited a $12 billion budget deficit and brought it to zero without cutting services, while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, and public housing, framing the achievement as 'Pothole Politics' and 'Democratic Socialism.'
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 06/05/2026
Had enough yet?
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 02/05/2026
Banksy is back but this time, it’s not a mural. The provocateur confirmed in a video that he is indeed the creator of an anti-imperialist monument depicting a modern man in a suit walking off a plinth with his face covered by a flag.
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Banksy Erects Anti-Imperialist Monument in Central London
A man in a suit, his face covered by a flag, walks toward his own demise.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 01/05/2026
"The result was less testimony than performance, aimed not at Congress so much as at the one viewer whose approval still matters most.”
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The Status of the War: From ‘Obliterated’ to ‘Give It Time’
Trump promised a quick victory. Now his team is asking for patience — and a blank check
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Laura Toffenetti @ltoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Look at that signature!
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Laura Toffenetti @ltoff.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Fasscinating!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/04/2026
Iran’s consulate in Hyderabad just posted this video mocking Trump and his “ceasefire extension”
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Lara (NOT TRUMP) @endlesswinter.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.
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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/04/2026
Khanna to Maria Bartiromo: "Barack Obama was a great statesman who left America much safer. I wouldn't put Donald Trump in the same paragraph. Obama actually did his homework ... all Donald Trump did is listen to Netanyahu. That's his entire foreign policy."
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A reminder, as Obama and Mamdani come together for the first time in person, that Mamdani is everything the GOP said Obama was... but wasn't: an African-born socialist Muslim. #justsayin
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying them for sex. I feel this needs to be emphasized much more than it is.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 17/04/2026
When your life becomes a case study in karma.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Chump's Never Had A Plan,Other Than To Enrich Himself, And Family Of Criminals......
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