Laura Pirard

I realized I haven’t introduced my cats on Bluesky yet. Here’s Kehinde (aka Squeak or Squeakies) on his grocery bag cat bed and Toby in one of his beloved boxes. 🥰 #cats #catsky

Numbers like that give me hope.

Any chance you’ll be swinging through New Mexico?

This. *This* is what we should be doing.

Those of us of good conscience cannot in good conscience keep sitting by and waiting for someone else to do something. We need to tap into our courage, like the founders did, and act.

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Here's my nerdy take on all the government BS - I'm playing Star Wars: Jedi Survivor for the first time and realizing, after hearing certain bits of dialogue, that the USA has pretty much become the Empire. Not a fun feeling.

I'll take being in the Rebel Alliance - in any capacity - any day.

They’ve turned us into the very thing our grandparents and thousands of others before us fought wars to overcome.

They’ve made us abandon our friends, who’ve turned away from us in shame.

And somehow I’m supposed to be proud to put on this uniform now.

I want to scream.

The SAVE Act would block tens of millions of eligible Americans from voting... Think about what that would mean for the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential election.

Text SAVE to 63033 to send an email to your lawmakers and urge them to vote no on the SAVE Act.

📑 More than 21 million American citizens don’t have these documents readily available
🛂 Over 140 million Americans do not have a passport
💍 69 million American women don’t have a birth certificate with their married name

Amidst all the chaos of the first few weeks of the Trump administration, they're working to pass the SAVE Act, which would require American citizens nationwide to provide a passport or birth certificate in person to register to vote. Here's why this is a big problem:

Trump and House Republicans are trying to sneak through a dangerous bill that would block millions of American citizens from registering to vote...

Things that make me feel old: going in for a chat with a CFA advisor, transcripts in hand. The advisor grins & says, "Oh, wow! It's been a long time since I've handled paper transcripts. I'm so used to them just coming through email."
And here I thought I was keeping up with the times pretty well! 🙃

Some might say all of those things are our *biggest* acts of resistance in dark, chaotic times. I'm a musician and an actor. If it weren't for those outlets, my cats, and the beauty of nature and love, I'd be going nuts right now.

As someone who hoped to join the NPS someday, my heart is breaking for the loss of possibility but even more for all of you who now find yourselves on such precarious ground. I hope you know how appreciated you are, even in this dark time, and I hope you find what you need to keep going forward.

We didn't elect our officials to lord it over us. We elected them to fight for us. And it's now evident that most of them just. Don't. Care.

If they do, they need better boxing gloves.

I want to see and experience human decency from our supposed leaders, and my heart is broken at the lack thereof.

All I'm seeing from the top and both sides of the aisle (with a few exceptions like @aoc.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov) is the antithesis of that. If it exists elsewhere, it's getting buried beneath apparent cowardice and fear when we *desperately* need to see it in action instead.

I've been trying to pin down the *exact* reason why I'm so enraged with what's happening, and I think I've finally figured it out.

I want a government filled with decent human beings - people who genuinely care about their fellow humans and want to make sure we all have what we need to live well.

If Medicaid gets frozen for good/axed because the people who can do the right thing about it *won’t*, my parents won’t have healthcare anymore. It’ll be the same for so many others. I was mad before, but I want to go freaking *binary* now.

Remember: no matter what happens, no matter what lies are told and fantasies are constructed, the truth remains the truth regardless of who likes it or not.

What would we truly lose? What would we regain? The answer seems so easy, but when we go to hit delete, it suddenly isn't. It angers me that it isn't easier to disengage in the same way it's hard to leave junk food and sugar and bad habits behind.

Just something that bears thinking about.

- email, phone calls, video chats.

Social media is a tool that has been both valuable and destructive. I firmly believe it's been one of the largest contributing factors to the divisiveness in our country. What if we all just shut off the fire hose?

It's hard to accept that I'm willingly devoting my energy to platforms run by people who don't seem to care about anyone who isn't like them. I *do* have some meaningful connections there. Those connections would be worth keeping up the old-fashioned way, though -

I've pared down my social media to here, FB, and Insta. While I'm very seriously considering leaving the latter two, I actually have what I consume there curated so that I only see stuff from most of my friends, things that make me happy, and things that make me think. However...

Heya lady! <3

Time to get active here! I just need to remember more often now. 😆

Oh, hello, Bluesky! Let’s see how this goes. 😊