Lara Lakshmi
@laralakshmi.bsky.social
Brown American mom and artist. Formerly an engineer with a Ph.D., now steeped in anti-fascist studies, art, and living on the edge.
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Lara Lakshmi
@laralakshmi.bsky.social
· Nov 13
My daughter was a newly minted lawyer on the Michigan Harris team. She moved to Detroit from NYC, registered to vote there, and worked insanely hard for a Harris win. This has been a crushing week for my whole family.
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tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working
October 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working
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In Hitler’s Germany, gentiles were as repulsed by Jews as most white Americans are by Muslim or Latino immigrants.
Jewish Anne Frank wasn’t a cute white preteen girl. She had been dehumanized by vicious antisemitic propaganda for decades.
Jewish Anne Frank wasn’t a cute white preteen girl. She had been dehumanized by vicious antisemitic propaganda for decades.
March 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
In Hitler’s Germany, gentiles were as repulsed by Jews as most white Americans are by Muslim or Latino immigrants.
Jewish Anne Frank wasn’t a cute white preteen girl. She had been dehumanized by vicious antisemitic propaganda for decades.
Jewish Anne Frank wasn’t a cute white preteen girl. She had been dehumanized by vicious antisemitic propaganda for decades.
Free speech is only for American men.
Mahmoud Khalil should have shaved and changed his name long ago, plus stopped blabbing about Palestine (it doesn’t even exist) … if he wanted to not be deported from America. #sarcasm but not really.
Mahmoud Khalil should have shaved and changed his name long ago, plus stopped blabbing about Palestine (it doesn’t even exist) … if he wanted to not be deported from America. #sarcasm but not really.
September 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Free speech is only for American men.
Mahmoud Khalil should have shaved and changed his name long ago, plus stopped blabbing about Palestine (it doesn’t even exist) … if he wanted to not be deported from America. #sarcasm but not really.
Mahmoud Khalil should have shaved and changed his name long ago, plus stopped blabbing about Palestine (it doesn’t even exist) … if he wanted to not be deported from America. #sarcasm but not really.
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Hey Vladimir, release the Epstein files!
September 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hey Vladimir, release the Epstein files!
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September 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Teach every young person you know how to recognize people with true empathy – as well as how others who feign empathy in order to manipulate. You will save them heartache, years of suffering, and perhaps their lives.
September 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Teach every young person you know how to recognize people with true empathy – as well as how others who feign empathy in order to manipulate. You will save them heartache, years of suffering, and perhaps their lives.
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US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.
September 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.
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I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
September 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
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AOC: Whether it is a member of congress, whether it is the President to assume and assert and cast blame when the FBI has failed to even apprehend the assailant, is absolutely an irresponsible action.
September 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
AOC: Whether it is a member of congress, whether it is the President to assume and assert and cast blame when the FBI has failed to even apprehend the assailant, is absolutely an irresponsible action.
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Schumer and Jeffries are the face of the Democratic Party, and they’re both punchable.
Want to rescue the DNC? Ask them to show daylight. Ask them to call in Chuck and Hakeem! 😏
Want to rescue the DNC? Ask them to show daylight. Ask them to call in Chuck and Hakeem! 😏
September 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Schumer and Jeffries are the face of the Democratic Party, and they’re both punchable.
Want to rescue the DNC? Ask them to show daylight. Ask them to call in Chuck and Hakeem! 😏
Want to rescue the DNC? Ask them to show daylight. Ask them to call in Chuck and Hakeem! 😏
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Protestors chant
FREE DC
FREE PALESTINE
TRUMP IS THE HITLER OF OUR TIME
To Trump, Vance, and Hegseth
FREE DC
FREE PALESTINE
TRUMP IS THE HITLER OF OUR TIME
To Trump, Vance, and Hegseth
September 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Protestors chant
FREE DC
FREE PALESTINE
TRUMP IS THE HITLER OF OUR TIME
To Trump, Vance, and Hegseth
FREE DC
FREE PALESTINE
TRUMP IS THE HITLER OF OUR TIME
To Trump, Vance, and Hegseth
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“It’s not his signature” is the new “the election was stolen”
A loyalty test
A loyalty test
September 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“It’s not his signature” is the new “the election was stolen”
A loyalty test
A loyalty test
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America committing terrorist acts. Summary justice. Business as usual.
Were there women and kids on the vessel?
Were there women and kids on the vessel?
September 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
America committing terrorist acts. Summary justice. Business as usual.
Were there women and kids on the vessel?
Were there women and kids on the vessel?
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Trump means Woody Allen, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime Manhattan neighbor?
September 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Trump means Woody Allen, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime Manhattan neighbor?
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This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people.
Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it.
We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it.
We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
September 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people.
Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it.
We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it.
We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
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Spencer Kuvin, Epstein's victims' lawyer, says the FBI interviewed 40+ girls, some just 14, and prepared a 54-count indictment. Then came the secret plea deal that let Epstein walk. Those interviews are in the files. Kuvin says Alan Dershowitz scoured the girls' MySpace pages to smear them as liars.
September 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Spencer Kuvin, Epstein's victims' lawyer, says the FBI interviewed 40+ girls, some just 14, and prepared a 54-count indictment. Then came the secret plea deal that let Epstein walk. Those interviews are in the files. Kuvin says Alan Dershowitz scoured the girls' MySpace pages to smear them as liars.
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i need everyone to focus because when it happens we need to immediately end the vance presidency in the crib by starting a rumor he and peter thiel did it
August 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
i need everyone to focus because when it happens we need to immediately end the vance presidency in the crib by starting a rumor he and peter thiel did it
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MADDOW: “Watch what he does, not what he says.”
@maddow.msnbc.com asks the media to zoom out and see Trump firing professionals in law enforcement and the military as a precursor for what he’s planning to ask them to do — and imagine if it was happening in another country.
@maddow.msnbc.com asks the media to zoom out and see Trump firing professionals in law enforcement and the military as a precursor for what he’s planning to ask them to do — and imagine if it was happening in another country.
August 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
MADDOW: “Watch what he does, not what he says.”
@maddow.msnbc.com asks the media to zoom out and see Trump firing professionals in law enforcement and the military as a precursor for what he’s planning to ask them to do — and imagine if it was happening in another country.
@maddow.msnbc.com asks the media to zoom out and see Trump firing professionals in law enforcement and the military as a precursor for what he’s planning to ask them to do — and imagine if it was happening in another country.
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They’re lynching a random Latino family man on the global stage, to demonize a people, and ethnic cleanse America through terror. The world should stop Trump’s government.
August 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
They’re lynching a random Latino family man on the global stage, to demonize a people, and ethnic cleanse America through terror. The world should stop Trump’s government.
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Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes.
One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen
Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men, t...
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August 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes.
One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
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Centrists are beginning to suspect everyone is getting tired of their bullshit.
August 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Centrists are beginning to suspect everyone is getting tired of their bullshit.
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a lot of people seem to conceptualize what happened to Twitter as “they stopped censoring the Nazis” but what actually happened is they rebuilt it to create Nazis
August 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
a lot of people seem to conceptualize what happened to Twitter as “they stopped censoring the Nazis” but what actually happened is they rebuilt it to create Nazis
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Young student filming goons explains how the goons (DHS) are following him wherever he goes.
August 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Young student filming goons explains how the goons (DHS) are following him wherever he goes.
I wrote an introduction to a series I’m writing called Introduction to Activism (for newbies), and it’s on substack.
Yes, I wrote an intro to the intro and here it is. Please read and share.
open.substack.com/pub/vararama...
Yes, I wrote an intro to the intro and here it is. Please read and share.
open.substack.com/pub/vararama...
Nobody's Coming To Lead Us
It's a good thing sandstorms need no leaders
open.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I wrote an introduction to a series I’m writing called Introduction to Activism (for newbies), and it’s on substack.
Yes, I wrote an intro to the intro and here it is. Please read and share.
open.substack.com/pub/vararama...
Yes, I wrote an intro to the intro and here it is. Please read and share.
open.substack.com/pub/vararama...