Laura Garden
Debut novel QUEENSLANDER coming April 2026! Writers Digest award-winning writer, also a farmer.
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- If fascists are getting out of bed in the winter and making things, we also need to get out of bed and make things. The horrors persist, but so do we.
- New post on Substack!
- Reposted by Laura GardenThis is Alex Pretti.
- Reposted by Laura GardenImagine this in a trial. Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing Declaration filed in federal court: "I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."
- Reposted by Laura GardenDon’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see. Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him. It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.
- Reposted by Laura Garden🚨 Breaking from the US Senator for Connecticut. 👇 There you have it. ICE has never been about immigration enforcement. It's a weapon used to brutalize Americans and stoke enough fear so that Trump can rig the elections and usher in dictatorship.
- Reposted by Laura GardenAlex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
- Reposted by Laura Gardenthey're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
- Reposted by Laura Garden"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
- Reposted by Laura GardenThere’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
- Reposted by Laura GardenAlex Jeffrey Pretti, an ICU nurse. 😢💔🙏 He spent his life helping people, and now our government is peddling lies in an attempt to make you believe them.
- Reposted by Laura GardenAlex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed. The next could be you. What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones. This is personal — to every one of us.
- Reposted by Laura GardenIf you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
- Reposted by Laura Gardenstate-sponsored child trafficking
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- Still at the cottage and will remain there until spring.
- Cover reveal!
- Aaah! So excited to share this book!
- Reposted by Laura GardenA cold-blooded murder was committed inside the United States by an agent of the United States federal government acting under the authority of Donald Trump. That is cause for deep concern by us all — right and left, Democrat and Republican. robertreich.substack.com/p/a-cold-blooded-murder
- Reposted by Laura Garden#CurrentlyReading How To Stand Up To a Dictator By Maria Ressa Democracy is fragile. An urgent cry for readers to recognize & understand the dangers to our freedoms. In telling her courageous story, Ressa forces readers to ask themselves: What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth? #booksky
- Reposted by Laura GardenAbolish the crazy thugs at ICE.
- Holiday post and a sneak peek for newsletter subscribers!
- Excited for people to read Queenslander!
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- Coming April 2026!
- Coming April 2026!
- Support indie bookstores on cyber monday!
- "We need better, more authoritative stories." -Bob Woodward, journalist
- "This is the final exam for democracy." -Bob Woodward, journalist
- Reposted by Laura GardenNo one will stop me from defending our freedoms.
- Happy Thanksgiving! Last week we dug up hundreds of dahlia tubers from the gardens and PYO flower field, put them in bins in the basement to overwinter for next year.
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- New post on Substack!
- An essay I wrote about Australian wildlife is featured in a podcast this week!
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- September being my birthday month, book club took a break from anti-fascism to read a “gothic nightmare full of buried secrets and shambling horrors”! I loved this book.
- On the farm, the flower gardens are peaking. Dahlias put out new pink, purple and orange blooms after the rain, and cosmos are starting to go by and turn brown.
- Reposted by Laura GardenRemember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
- We all need to be civil liberties advocates and defenders of our Constitutional rights.
- Whether or not we retain the right to free speech depends on everyday people being willing to speak freely about the things we care about. You have a voice. Use it.
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- Reposted by Laura GardenAfter years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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- What's the literary equivalent of an EGOT? Fiction, nonfiction and fantasy? Or Poetry, nonfiction, and fiction?
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- I’ve always believed that writers need to immerse themselves in the world, occupations, people, and places, in order to write about the world as it is, to create stories that enrich readers’ lives.
- As George R. R. Martin says, “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
- Reposted by Laura GardenAuthoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
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- This looks fun!
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- September is my birthday month, so I chose something different and fun for my Substack book club! This month we’ll read Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings, which came out yesterday. I’m curious to read it because she lives in Queensland! @tanaudel.bsky.social
- Writing groups continue to give me energy and enthusiasm. It’s easier to do in community.
- Fall is in the air, with the pleasant weather and perfect seventy-five degree days, but to the flowers it is still summer.
- Follow me on substack where I write about writing, queer lit, farming, and democracy!
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- Baby steps in a positive direction. Join local groups. Talk about the changes you want to see. Talk about what is important to you. Have faith.
- Hi friends, I’ve been traveling this week on a road trip to Virginia for a family reunion.
- Reposted by Laura GardenNo brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration
- Reposted by Laura GardenAttempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
- Now, in August, the butterflies are here. Ruby-throated hummingbirds visit the gardens every morning. Pollinators flock to the flower field and other gardens. This is “peak bloom”, a phenomenon which lasts a month.
- In November 2024, when I started writing this journal of a sure-to-be-fucked-up year in America—wanting a record that I could look back on to see how and when specific things changed, mindsets, attitudes, political realities, etc., I was digging up dahlia tubers.
- Since it’s been a while (nine months) since I started this newsletter back in November one week after the election, I want to circle back to the reasons behind the two names for people who have joined.
