Laura @lcstep

Los Angeles, CA Joined February 2011

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Cool Hand Luka @coolhandluka_

8 months ago

hey guys we finally found the looting everyone has been talking about

Los Angeles Times @latimes

8 months ago

hey guys we finally found the looting everyone has been talking about

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JPL is one of NASA's major science and climate centers—home to the Mars rovers and 1000s of people. Firefighters held back the flames at JPL’s gates, but many of our coworkers lost their homes. Here’s a thread of their public GoFundMes if you can share & support however possible:

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

10 months ago

We must not delude ourselves in this moment. Multiracial democracy in the United States is less than 60 years old. It has always been contested, often violently so. It has always been fragile. Since this nation's inception large swaths of white Americans -- including white women…

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Emma Mateo @emm_mateo

a year ago

I live by Columbia. Tonight I went for a walk & saw 10+ blocks rapidly barricaded, dozens of police vehicles flying by, large groups of NYPD in riot gear gathering. I study protest in E Europe. What I saw tonight was some of the most wildly disproportionate policing I've seen 1/

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derek guy @dieworkwear

2 years ago

me wearing my expensive online purchases only to realize the horrifying void is still in me

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chuck 🏔 @crowcialist

2 years ago

Feel like mental health has pretty safely hit the “breast cancer zone,” where literally everyone is now aware of it but awareness campaigns are all we are ever gonna get when what we really need is free universal healthcare

Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt

2 years ago

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Amanda Hess @amandahess

3 years ago

We’re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.

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Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh

3 years ago

if you want to connect with me outside of twitter, look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day. at dawn look to the east

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Margo Herre, MD, PhD @margo_herre

3 years ago

It really doesn't get better than chatting with @TheAtlantic's @KatherineJWu on all things smell, mosquitoes, and the special bouquet of odors that drives their insatiable thirst for our blood

Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D. @KatherineJWu

3 years ago

It really doesn't get better than chatting with @TheAtlantic's @KatherineJWu on all things smell, mosquitoes, and the special bouquet of odors that drives their insatiable thirst for our blood https://t.co/zSrPnUBI0Q

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Ryan Ken @Ryan_Ken_Acts

3 years ago

Those men were at the constitutional convention on stolen land writing about "freedom" while eating meals prepared by the human beings they owned. Some chewed and swallowed that food with teeth stolen from someone else's mouth. And we were taught in school to call them "fathers."

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie

3 years ago

Worth saying that the idea that this will be determined through the democratic process is a cruel joke since this Court has also systematically dismantled the federal protection of voting rights and fair representation from state lawmakers who seek to limit both.

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Taylor Berman @tcberman

3 years ago

“She died before discovering what, if anything, she was afraid of.”

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @KeeangaYamahtta

3 years ago

From a country on the verge of forcing women to give birth against their will…unreal

The New York Times @nytimes

3 years ago

From a country on the verge of forcing women to give birth against their will…unreal

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Emily Adrian @adremily

3 years ago

Minutes after putting the 5yo to bed I heard tragic pillow-muffled sobs. I went back into his room. He struggled to collect himself then finally gasped, “Connecticut is boring!”

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New York Times Tech Guild @NYTGuildTech

4 years ago

The tech workers of @nytimes have spoken, and the results are in: We won our election 404-88! #TechGuildYes @nyguild @newsguild @CODE_CWA

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21st Century City @urbanthoughts11

4 years ago

Accidentally perfect advertisement for trains

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trash jones @jzux

4 years ago

me, age 22 (hopeful): anything can happen! me now (horrified): anything can happen

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Carlos Maza @gaywonk

4 years ago

I am once again asking google if my cat — who meows to greet me, follows me everywhere, asks for cuddles, and sleeps next to me every night — “actually likes me.”