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Laura Ruby

@thatlauraruby.bsky.social
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Novelist, poet, teacher, unrepentant cat-lover, cancer patient, two-time National Book Award Finalist. Bone Gap, Thirteen Doorways, etc. Made of bees. @thatlauraruby on most socials. www.lauraruby.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 56m
It’s Banned Books Week. Find an event or other ways to take actions and get involved: Events: bannedbooksweek.org/events/ Action: bannedbooksweek.org/let-freedom-...
PROTECT THE FREEDOM TO READ
LET BOOKS BE
BANNED BOOKS WEEK
OCT 4-10,2026
BANNEDBOOKSWEEK.ORG

A colorful collage of illustrated characters piled together and reading books.
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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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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 22h
Yes! And if you can't donate, find local actions you can take ilovelibraries.org/fight-censor... Learn more about attending local school board & library meetings here: uniteagainstbookbans.org/guide-to-att... Also, consider running for school board!
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Fight Censorship - I Love Libraries
Fight Censorship Libraries and schools across the country are experiencing unprecedented levels of attempts to ban or remove books from their shelves. The American Library Association (ALA) documented...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I see some folks asking: what motivates RFK Jr to tell such horrific, dangerous, repulsive lies about the HPV vaccine? Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way) Always follow the 🤑! www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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RFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker Merck
RFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have never heard of any newsrooms with alarming practices like those described in this thread. If you have, I’d like to hear from you. Contact in bio.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 02/10/2026
In these strange and fragile times, where we are increasingly forced to consider the limits of humanity's timeline, it's important that we sometimes cast our minds toward things that are extraordinarily cute. hellgatenyc.com/baby-snow-le...
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Vaccines don’t cause autism. But vaccines can help prevent it. This study found an increase in autism rates among babies born with rubella, who were infected by their moms during pregnancy. Vaccinating against rubella with the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella) prevents infection.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.
The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on ­ post-
­ traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a ­ moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Machine Gun Netiquette @nodurians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
look, this type of communist talk may go over just fine in Kentucky, but good luck trying it in Washington state
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please say this again...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
even the corruption is racist
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So what Duckworth actually said was worse than that short clip I saw... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmYs...
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What should Democrats do if they win?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026
The people who are arguing that bookstores can just take the place of public and school libraries have never seen the children's section. The reason there is a 40-50 book limit for most patrons is kids books. The sheer volume that kids read through is beyond most adults' understanding.
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
hey just curious where did the “protect women athletes” crowd get off to
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...
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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go
The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
Jaw-dropping documents from our lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happening within the same 72 hours that Trump banned media from the White House — alarm bells as we hurl towards the midterms with near-daily reminders that the group of men controlling our govt & media & tech grows smaller as they glom onto power & wield increasingly authoritarian tactics.
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 21/09/2026
donald trump: i love this guy more than literally all my relatives and wives mamdani: this is the first time in my life that i can't make myself smile
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Episode Two of my limited-run podcast Liberating Lit lands tomorrow. Catch up with episode one, featuring @tasslyn.bsky.social, today. Grab it on the podcast website or whever you tune into your pods: www.liberatinglit.com/episodes/epi...
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Episode One: Tasslyn Magnusson — Liberating Lit
Dr. Tasslyn Magnusson has been tracking book bans since 2021. But her work is much more than simply counting–it’s helping motivate other people nationwide to get to work protecting the right to read. ...
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is just disappearing people. This would’ve been the stuff of conspiracy theory a decade ago and now it’s in the AP.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
trump loves being on tv his whole deal is being on the tv
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Jessica J. González @jgo4justice.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
News broke this afternoon that Bonta and Paramount are in settlement talks. All of the sources are anonymous. Which is really … something. The Wall Street Journal and Deadline have slightly conflicting reports on timing. If I were advising the state AGs, this is what I’d say:
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026
I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 20/09/2026
This should be the biggest political scandal of our times. It's literally Robinhood in reverse, robbing working people and lining the pockets of the rich.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The judge asked the govt if the Kennedy Center is going bankrupt. You should've seen them backpedal Why so fast? If it's broke, a court puts someone else in charge & they lose control of it @cnn.com👇 -TN
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump gutting our national parks for his vanity projects. Officials pulled at least $67 million from park visitor fees and put it toward projects Trump favors in Washington. Hundreds of needed repairs in national parks could stall this year without funding. www.rawstory.com/trump-nation...
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'Catastrophic' cost of Trump's gluttonous gilding exposed in bombshell NYT report
President Donald Trump's gluttonous hunger to gild Washington, D.C has left America's national parks in dire turmoil, according to experts sounding the alarm.Trump has cut national park staff across t...
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c-a-m @cad6711.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thread: I represent children in ORR custody. At Thurs' juvenile court hearing, I sat stunned as a young, female DHS attorney argued, one-by-one, that the judge should order each child deported, without a hearing. What she was arguing shocked the conscience. These were children. My one client is...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is straight out of Handmaids Tale. A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle. Don’t comply? You lose a grade. There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.
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Theodore Kim @theodore-kim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As always, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social ’s analysis of the “AIs gone rogue” bullshit is spot on. “Why do the powerful leaders of A.I. want us to panic? Because panic sells the idea that A.I. is ungovernable.” They show their unseriousness when “[n]one of them are enthusiastic about accountability."
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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026
i need to know what happened
sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"
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Historian Jen @historianjenfl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They are obsessed with knowing what’s going on in everyone’s pants. Tim Walz was right. They’re weird. This is weird stuff.
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Laura Ruby @thatlauraruby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
…………….Jake Paul?????
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ICE activity has been picking up again in Chicago A LOT. If you were previously involved with ICE watch efforts, now is a good time to reengage. I’m going to start wearing a whistle again.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tonight! Hands around the Kennedy Center is Friday 6:30-8:00pm.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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Pablo Nepomnaschy @pablonep.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not new, and not discovered...still great news. I offer a, perhaps, more accurate, less colonizing, title: "Western scientists describe a felid known to local communities as Tilcayo. It is the first description of its kind in over a century"
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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