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laramara.bsky.social
@laramara.bsky.social
Accidental stay at home mom with an anthropology degree & and interest in science communications.and museum studies. I love listening to nerds talk about their favorite things.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
PUSD is being 'held harmless' for enrollment drops due to the fire, but they are punishing our kids by taking 2 teachers. Altadena has been through enough!! Don't balance your budget on the backs of our kids! @pasadenaunified.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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🚨 NEW from me: Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's immigration crackdown, has a financial stake of up to a quarter million dollars in Palantir, a key ICE contractor. Experts cite conflict of interest concerns

Read it @pogo.org:

www.pogo.org/investigatio...
Stephen Miller’s Financial Stake in ICE Contractor Palantir
Over a dozen Trump appointees in the White House and Department of Homeland Security have owned stock in the controversial company raising privacy concerns across the political spectrum.
www.pogo.org
June 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
My new hero
June 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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We found out that ICE is staying at the AC hotel in #Pasadena and now there's a couple of hundred people protesting #NoICE
June 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
May 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Altadena Arts Magnet's playground blacktop is being used as a parking place for the heavy equipment that's spending all day on lead and asbestos filled ash. What is the remediation plan, PUSD? I hope it's not just hosing off the asphalt.
April 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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This Maxar Technologies sat image with SWIR shows what was on fire in Altadena, California this morning at 10:45 a.m. local time.

Nearly everything.
January 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Oh look! It’s a gallery of things I must now order online because it takes 20 minutes to find the Keeper of the Deodorant Key
I get the need to safeguard from shoplifting but this CVS setup is insane.
November 30, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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Let’s talk a bit about what you, an average German newspaper reader in 1933, would have learned about Hitler’s rise to power. Let’s assume you read the “Vossische Zeitung”, a comparatively liberal middle-class newspaper. In modern times, the Berlin State Library library let’s you read it online: 1/
1933 - ZEFYS
ZEFYS, das Zeitungsinformationssystem der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ist ein Portal für den Nachweis und Zugriff auf aktuelle und historische Zeitungen aus Deutschland und der ganzen Welt.
zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
November 15, 2024 at 10:20 PM