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NMLaura (she/her)

@nmlaura.bsky.social
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Intrepid Galactic Explorer (Retired), Artist, Poet

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11h
Good evening
Tesco the golden retriever sitting on a street outside, looking up at the camera with a quizzical expression
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Santa Fe Public Library @sfnmpl.bsky.social · 10h
It's wet out there! Turn around, don't drown! www.weather.gov/safety/flood...
A yellow road sign reading "When flooded turn around don't drown"
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 10h
I’ve been noting that one of the main use cases that everyday users had already been putting LLMs and agents to use is the compilation of dossiers for peer-on-peer surveillance and automated gang-stalking (swarm-stalking) of other citizens, so of course Meta is copying that as a feature.
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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 10h
man as if the bubble wasn't bad enough now all these AI companies have to reprint their stationary
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Truthout @truthout.org · 10h
“Protecting child predators, facilitating extra-judicial murders, jacking up everyone’s prices through tariffs and military misadventures, all so that Donald Trump can get rich and he doesn’t yell at you, is a hell of a closing message,” wrote Rep. Sean Casten on Bluesky.
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The Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 10h
NEW: Doña Ana County emergency officials have issued an evacuation order for Salem and Garfield residents due to flooding, according to the county's Facebook page. A dam in the area also faced “imminent failure.” sfnm.co/46QAqpe
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Evacuation ordered in Doña Ana County due to flooding, dam failure threat
Residents are urged to gather medications and essential items, take pets and avoid any flooded roads and low water crossings.
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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 10h
Yes quite!
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
After seizing Auchan, Nestlé and Leroy Merlin, Putin today seized Russian assets of German retailer Metro AG as well. That’s the price of staying in Russia after 2022, calling it “neutrality,” and paying taxes that helped bankroll the war. Zero sympathy.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10h
Jack Smith wasn't at an Atlanta Hawks game but Donald Trump definitely had troves of classified documents in his bathroom
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 10h
GoFundMe was a lot more effective when it was called taxes.
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 17h
How long before the Cornell 7 become interns at the WH?
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 10h
State passes law banning local, state and federal officers from using gloves that deliver painful electric shocks
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California bans officers’ use of electric-shock gloves after ICE reveals plan to equip agents
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h
Super PACs aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have spent a combined $55.7 million and counting on the midterm elections. Almost none of their ads mention AI or data centers. Know their names and don't fall for their lies.
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Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026
Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10h
Americans' confidence in the economy sank to the lowest level in more than a decade this month as prices remain elevated and wages stagnate amid the ongoing Iran war.
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Americans' view of the economy sinks to the lowest level since 2014, Conference Board survey says
Americans’ confidence in the economy sank to the lowest level in more than a decade this month as prices remain elevated and wages stagnate amid the ongoing Iran war.
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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The good news about this is every generation needs a series of movies about heists of nazi gold. The bad new about this is that we're the nazis. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
"Most presidents engage in diplomacy in order to advance the interests of the United States and/or their political standing and that of their party. Trump, though, mostly seems to chase the narcissistic thrill of standing on the world stage and feeling important."
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Trump loves Xi because he wants to be him
Kowtowing to tyrants makes him think he’s strong.
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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 12h
Love paying $1000 a month for health care to decline to cover my medication prescribed to me by my doctor.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 13h
FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...
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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II
A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 11h
Israel Bombs Newly Built Water Desalination Plant in Gaza 🎥
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Israel Bombs Newly Built Water Desalination Plant in Gaza - UNICORN RIOT
Israeli airstrikes destroyed a newly built water desalination plant in Gaza City on Aug. 24, 2026, see the video here.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 11h
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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US Asunder @usasunder.bsky.social · 18h
"History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." (rupar)
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 19h
Today’s Jack Smith hearing should be treated by the press as a civics lesson rather than a spectacle. “As I appear before you today, it is my belief that the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we have experienced in our lifetime.” His opening remarks: www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 9h
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the oldest member of the Senate, has said that he worries Iowa may elect a Democratic governor because that person would pick his replacement if he dies while in office. Grassley will be 95 when his term expires in January 2029.
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Chuck Grassley, 93, Laments a Democrat Could Replace Him If He Dies in Office
The remarks come as Sen. Mitch McConnell, 84, faces calls to step down over health- and age-related concerns.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 16h
Pete Hegseth announced on Monday that he is directing the military to defend the US midterm elections from foreign interference, but the CISA agency in charge of this has been gutted. Here's what it all means: shero.substack.com/p/hegseth-pr...
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Hegseth Pretends to Care About Election Integrity after Gutting CISA
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo on Monday directing the military to defend the US midterm elections from foreign interference.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 21h
The idea that women are given special rights based on sex is a remarkably absurd framing and not how discrimination protections actually work in practice. It can only stem from a thoroughly right-wing understanding of the world that believes marginalized people are granted extra entitlements.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 10h
Indeed. This point can't be stressed enough. "Sex-based" is a term we've always used to describe *discrimination*, and its sudden mainstreaming as pseudo-feminism in the UK reveals it as a poison that unravels the entire liberal democratic architecture of civil rights. I wrote about it here.
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The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"
"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 9h
"There is always a box, and our job is twofold. First, we don’t let anyone get put inside the box. And second, we destroy the box."
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Every Dictator Wants You In the Box
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
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NMLaura (she/her) @nmlaura.bsky.social · 9h
The dear leader has decreed that Artificial Stupidity will now be known as Super Stupidity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 9h
I'm profoundly against this depraved record and want to do the exact opposite: pass Medicare for All.
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Mike Rogers voted against children’s health coverage over and over - Detroit Metro Times
Mike Rogers repeatedly voted against efforts to expand health insurance for children of working families.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there should be a name for that consultant stink that dems get about them, the miasma of bad of advice, ill-considered knee-jerk centrism in the face of actual fascism, the reek of cowardice that only comes from abysmal advice
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026
If I’m reading this right, Anthropic has no choice but to IPO now because it doesn’t have the money to cover its computing / infrastructure obligations next year
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juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 29/09/2026
A lot of people yelling at me to get a job and I wish they all knew that I literally try to get jobs all the time , locally around me , like at gas stations and etc, and within my industry. I don’t get any of the jobs despite always trying to. It’s been like this since I transitioned 5 years ago.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Deep Image of Peculiar Shell Elliptical Galaxy NGC 3923 in Hydra - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/293GTsm
Some 90 million light years away, towards the Southern constellation Hydra, lies the peculiar shell elliptical galaxy NGC 3923. As of 2018, there doesn't seem to exist any other amateur images of this beautiful galaxy.
Its unusual appearance originate from past mergers with other nearby galaxies which have generated the myriad of concentric shells visible near the centre. This phenomenon is in fact not uncommon and many other elliptical galaxies host large shell systems, including the famous Centaurus A (NGC 5128), but the remarkable symmetry and large number of subtle shells is unique to NGC 3923.

The formation of such shells are a common observation in computer simulations of merging galaxies.
The shells form when the cores of merging galaxies orbit around their common centre of mass in an ever tighter orbit while disrupting the halos of both galaxies and sending billions of stars into eccentric orbits. This process creates outward traveling density waves until the collision eventually settles as one single large galaxy.
Recent research based on deep images from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have documented 42 concentric shells in NGC 3923, more than in any other known galaxy.

A prominent stream of stars is extending towards the lower right, terminating abruptly in a shell-like fragment (4 o'clock position). Visible within this stream is a small round galaxy, believed to be one of the merging progenitors of the shell system. The galaxy appears to be in the process...
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UNREAL!!! Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students. The goal of Trump regime to erase the LGBTQ community from existence thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Television history that matters.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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NMLaura (she/her) @nmlaura.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey @abqjournal.bsky.social it looks like the Tylenol killer from the 80s worked in NM. I'd be interested to learn more about that.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026
Nice piece here packed with information about the tech-fossil-CCS nexus that has become more clear in the past year www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2026/09/25/d...
Two Industries, Two Problems, One Big Carbon Capture Scam
AI data centers are incredibly energy-hungry; by 2028, they may command as much electricity as 55 million households. Already, 40% of data center energy comes from dirty gas.

The AI boom is already driving the construction of new gas-fired power plants and keeping old power plants on life support. This is creating a real credibility issue for the tech industry’s unenforceable climate and environmental pledges.

The fossil fuel industry has a different problem. They need new customers to justify massive new pipelines, new power plants, and fracking. CCS is the bridge between these two destructive industries. It’s providing Big Tech a new fig leaf and the fossil fuel industry a massive new customer base.
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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OK, a final #photo for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme: #lights “Saturday Night Snow (with ghosted snowplow)" #Longexposure of Boston’s Commonwealth Ave. Mall with #holidaylights, #snow and light trails flic.kr/p/5SbVou #photosky #photography #Black&WhitePhotography #EastCoastKin #holidaylights
Long exposure black and white photo of Boston’s Commonwealth Ave. Mall with holiday lights, snow, light trails, and ghosted snowplow.
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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another #photo for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme: #lights “Looking at the Lights” Abolitionist, women's rights advocate and suffragist #LucyStone. #BostonWomen'sMemorial on the Commonwealth Mall flic.kr/p/98CNuB #photosky #photography #Black&WhitePhotography #EastCoastKin #holidaylights #snow
Black and white photo of a statue of abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and suffragist Lucy Stone in the Boston Women's Memorial on the Commonwealth Mall in winter with holiday lights strung on the trees along the mall. There is snow on the ground and a dusting of fresh snow on the Lucy Stone statue.
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Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 26/09/2026
#Lights for #BlueSkyArtShow #photography
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vermontginny.bsky.social @vermontginny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#BlueSkyArtShow, #Lights
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Abdohassan @abdohassan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are refusing to show the promotional trailer for an upcoming documentary that criticizes Israel.Here is the trailer for Naza, the award winning documentary that details the system’s behind Israel’s mass killings in Gaza 👇
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MarkIraKaufman @markirakaufman.com · 26/09/2026
IMO Musk is the most dangerous person in the world.
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