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NMLaura (she/her)

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

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 1h
Former Joliet police lieutenant Jeremy Harrison, 50, faces a charge of computer tampering and official misconduct in Will County, per Illinois State Police. Harrison’s charges make him at least the third Will County law enforcement officer accused of misusing the surveillance technology this year.
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Former Joliet police officer charged over alleged Flock camera misuse
Jeremy Harrison, 50, faces a charge of computer tampering and official misconduct in Will County in July 2025, when Harrison was serving as a lieutenant in the Joliet Police Department.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 6h
I talked with the incredible @kissphoria.bsky.social about her reporting on Instagram banning queer bars all over the country. youtu.be/wKIgdlpGN3k
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Why Instagram Keeps Banning LGBTQ Bars (ft. Gwen Howerton)
YouTube video by Katelyn Burns
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1h
Spare me Sen. Thom Tillis’s self-interested redemption book tour. When he had the opportunity to do what was right, he failed nearly every time. For example, he drew a line on Jan. 6 apologia, and then confirmed multiple people who crossed it, including Kash Patel and Jeanine Pirro.
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Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23m
The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The filters are off. The brain is mush. If only there were some mechanism in our Constitution to remove a president who is incompetent or unable to perform his duties…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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NMLaura (she/her) @nmlaura.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If only there were places that you could go to get things to exercise your brain FOR FREE *cough* PUBLIC LIBRARIES *cough. 🙄
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
ICE has ordered 6,650 pairs—and says it'll ignore any bans.
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Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Americans are getting swept up in Trump’s immigration dragnet. Over 500 U.S. citizens that we know of. Even more that we don’t. ICE’s lawlessness spares no one.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Montana Supreme Court struck down key GOP restrictions on citizen ballot initiatives. The unanimous ruling is a major win for direct democracy — and a powerful check on the Legislature’s ability to interfere with the people’s lawmaking power.
democracydocket.com
Montana Supreme Court strikes down GOP restrictions on citizen ballot initiatives
The decision is a major victory for citizen-led democracy in Montana, where the state constitution expressly reserves the powers of initiative and referendum to the people. It also delivers a…
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Albuquerque Journal @abqjournal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
City Council on Monday passed three-fourths of a legislative zoning package that took formal recognition and appeal power from neighborhood coalitions in an attempt to cut red tape and spur development.
abqjournal.com
City Council removes formal recognition, standing from neighborhood coalitions
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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The GENEROSITY of this list. I'd only read the first two before, and they spear you right in your solar plexus. Slowly making my way through the rest. "My Unraveling" is astonishing.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/10/2026
...and Yale has also issued a bunch of new restrictions on student free speech - meaning current Yale students have less freedom that I had almost 40 years ago when I was an undergrad. Inexcusable. If this bothers you, please follow @standupforyale.bsky.social and sign up for the mailing list.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/10/2026
Honored to speak on behalf of @standupforyale.bsky.social at the Democratize Yale protest on 10/2 on Yale's Beinecke Plaza - and huge thanks to Kyo Lee for the photo! Yale president Maurie McInnis is currently trying to cut a deal with the white supremacists in the Trump administration...
Greg Pak speaks into a mic while pointing at a rally on Yale's Beineke Plaza. Photo by Kyo Lee.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Ethan Sacks @ethansacks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nuking American cities to own the libs.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 06/10/2026
"Whatever you lean towards, it will speak positively about it."
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Particularly Weak-Minded Americans Are Asking ChatGPT Which Candidate to Vote For, Which Sounds a Bit Like AI Is Just Voting Now Via Meat Proxies
Voters in the upcoming midterm elections are using ChatGPT to research candidates and figure out who to vote for.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 06/10/2026
Cornell students stage anti-rape rally reut.rs/4ALiIkJ
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Cornell students stage anti-rape rally
Throngs of Cornell University students rallied on Monday voicing solidarity with a classmate whose gang-rape ​allegations have ignited a national uproar and demanding that the Ivy League school take firmer action against sexual violence ‌on campus.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pennsylvania has now reported: -At least 1004 measles cases -198 hospitalizations -Five deaths Only four of the cases had been vaccinated. Sure, we’ve got some numbers here, but the damage from RFK Jr.’s malicious treachery is actually incalculable.
wbaltv.com
Pennsylvania measles cases reach more than 1,000. Track outbreaks in your state
Measles cases have surged in 2026, and Pennsylvania reported more than a thousand cases as of Monday.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 06/10/2026
Andry Hernández Romero sought asylum in the U.S. after being persecuted for being LGBTQ in Venezuela. A few months later, he and over 100 other men were illegally sent to El Salvador’s CECOT prison. We’re in court fighting for everyone sent there to get due process.
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Trump Administration Officials Face Possible Criminal Contempt Charges
ACLU argued today that the Trump administration must be held accountable for defying a judge’s orders not to send 100 Venezuelan men to CECOT.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
At a Nebraska rally, Trump called higher prices a “small price to pay” before suggesting allowing Iran to "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego
meidasnews.com
Trump Says to Let Iran ‘Take Out’ Los Angeles, San Diego in Nebraska Speech
At a Nebraska rally, Trump called higher prices a “small price to pay” before suggesting allowing Iran to "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ACCURATE AF. Don't even get me started on their weird obsession with drinking people's tears, and delight in the suffering of others.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If Trump just takes money appropriated by Congress for a specific purpose & seizes it to use it for an entirely different purpose, what is the point of having a Congress or appropriating money for anything? I’m sure the Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins must be concerned.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Damn, and you MAGA fools wonder why everyone laughs at you. Because you let these dipshits post ignorant, pathetic bullshit like this.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just one day after another of cartoonish villainy
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Conservation of Anger Momentum @primarylupine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Geese are containers of all the spite, meanness, and hate taken from Canadians, transferred to them in the annual Emotional Conflux, a week after Moose-hatching season ends. The energy radiates from the CN Tower, across the ionosphere, and into geese around the globe.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 03/10/2026
The UK Department for Health and Social Care has written the Good Law Project demanding they take down a video criticizing Palantir’s NHS contract. goodlawproject.org/i... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
goodlawproject.org
Is this the first ever SLAPP by our own Government?
The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The plans have drawn condemnation from some residents of central Louisiana, and immigrant advocates and child welfare experts have expressed concerns about possible trauma inflicted on detained children..." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
nytimes.com
New Facility at Louisiana Airport to Hold Immigrant Children and Families (Gift Article)
The site in Alexandria, La., a major expansion of the Trump administration’s busiest deportation hub, will streamline and accelerate removals.
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Chris Labarthe @chrislabarthe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Etruscan dude feeding scraps to his kitteh (from the recent Etruscan exhibit at the Legion of Honor in SF)
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Excellent reply😂👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Count on it 👇
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The wealth of the richest 0.1 percent of Americans has more than doubled since 2019. If that doesn't convince you we need a wealth tax, renowned economist Gabriel Zucman will. Watch.
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How to Actually Tax Extreme Wealth (ft. Gabriel Zucman)
Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026
Crucial point about the effect of denigrating, defunding, and attacking critical humanistic and social-scientific scholarship in gender and sexuality as 'woke,' 'biased/not objective,' and 'useless' www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...
But it’s not just the toxic echo chambers of the “manosphere” or the darkest corners of internet porn sending the message that women are subordinate, experts on gender and culture say. Institutions of higher learning are being systematically stripped of the disciplines and programs that for decades have countered that message.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Family dining al fresco. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black and white photo of a shorthaired, white and tabby cat lying in a field looking brightly towards the camera. She has two kittens appearing to nurse on her and a third kitten that looks very much like her that is also looking towards the camera.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
RFK Jr. should be FIRED or RESIGN immediately. PREDICTABLY: He’s STILL rubbing elbows with anti-vaxxers and lifting the same conspiracy theories that are getting kids killed.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why not run ONE ad exposing the Gang Who Couldn't Epstein Straight? Their crotch-sniffing isn't just about them being sick perverts. They think you're a sucker. They think you don't see Elon & his Reich soaking up trillions, building dirty data centers up your ass while your mom can't afford gas.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 03/10/2026
The biggest threat to Ken Paxton’s Senate campaign is Ken Paxton. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Ken Paxton defends sweetheart deal he gave to a pedophile
Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton once again proved on Monday that he is a generationally bad candidate when he defended a sweetheart deal he gave to a pedophile charged…
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 03/10/2026
Starting this week, I'm going to be streaming on Twitch and YouTube a couple afternoons a week about the news, politics, current events. Here's the Twitch link: www.twitch.tv/ktabz2/
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ktabz2 - Twitch
ktabz2 streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.
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Shane Ross aka Mr. Snippy-snip 🎞⚔🎞 @comebackshane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Scottish comedian Daniel Sloss talks about how men need to hold other men accountable for rape and sexual assault.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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18-year-old in ICE detention for more than 200 days: 'They just took me away'
Elder Chavez Carranza has spent more than 200 days in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, hundreds of miles from his home in Albertville, Alabama.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Queen of Clubs, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, Art Nouveau pioneer and Glasgow School Artist #WomensArt
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"Horrifying Monster" Ella Tailor 🎃🎃 $310/$700 @garaktailor.com · 03/10/2026
$75 more dollars in the tip Jar and Moxley gets Churu when I get home.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/10/2026
A new documentary titled "Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed" examines government records, some newly publicized, to show how the United Kingdom ignored or concealed mounting evidence of Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza after the October 7 attacks.
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“Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed”: How U.K. Downplayed Israeli Crimes to Keep Selling Weapons
A new documentary titled Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed reveals new details about the U.K. government’s internal response to alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Presented by journalist Ramita Navai an...
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