Art Witch Lauren
@artwitchlb.bsky.social
Queer - AuDHDer - Disabled - Artist - Witch - Mother - Rebel - Visionary - Abolitionist - she/they
Losing herd immunity state by state, county by county.
Rural hospitals disappearing.
Life expectancy dropping - not because the old die off, no they have 60 or more years of health to rely on.
The children will die from whooping cough, measles, the flu, COVID, etc.
Infant mortality.
Rural hospitals disappearing.
Life expectancy dropping - not because the old die off, no they have 60 or more years of health to rely on.
The children will die from whooping cough, measles, the flu, COVID, etc.
Infant mortality.
February 6, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Losing herd immunity state by state, county by county.
Rural hospitals disappearing.
Life expectancy dropping - not because the old die off, no they have 60 or more years of health to rely on.
The children will die from whooping cough, measles, the flu, COVID, etc.
Infant mortality.
Rural hospitals disappearing.
Life expectancy dropping - not because the old die off, no they have 60 or more years of health to rely on.
The children will die from whooping cough, measles, the flu, COVID, etc.
Infant mortality.
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Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
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A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp...
"And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
"And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
February 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp...
"And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
"And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
A reminder that the ruling class created the difference between “professional” and “folk” art so they could profit while disparaging the work of craftspeople who adorned their homes, furniture, clothing, and bodies. The ruling class created a false scarcity of art.
Make ALL THE ART & eat the rich.
Make ALL THE ART & eat the rich.
It's not just fine but amazing to make amateur art. Humans are artmakers. You don't have to be professionalized as an artist, you don't have to make art of professional merit. Just create!
February 5, 2026 at 7:02 PM
A reminder that the ruling class created the difference between “professional” and “folk” art so they could profit while disparaging the work of craftspeople who adorned their homes, furniture, clothing, and bodies. The ruling class created a false scarcity of art.
Make ALL THE ART & eat the rich.
Make ALL THE ART & eat the rich.
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Poor rapists are getting away with it too. Pretty much all rapists are getting away with it. Ask a survivor.
February 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Poor rapists are getting away with it too. Pretty much all rapists are getting away with it. Ask a survivor.
I think people forget that being a terrible human isn’t going to get anyone arrested. There is no court to hold them accountable.
There is only the harsh light of day, over, and over, & over again. There’s only us to rake them across the coals. There’s only painful cultural shifts to make change.
There is only the harsh light of day, over, and over, & over again. There’s only us to rake them across the coals. There’s only painful cultural shifts to make change.
"This guy is clearly a monster, but he's a well-connected and well-resourced monster so I'm going to let it slide" is the universal lapse in judgement here among elites, and it's a huge issue that seems to be getting missed even though it's so damning of the culture around them.
February 3, 2026 at 8:48 PM
I think people forget that being a terrible human isn’t going to get anyone arrested. There is no court to hold them accountable.
There is only the harsh light of day, over, and over, & over again. There’s only us to rake them across the coals. There’s only painful cultural shifts to make change.
There is only the harsh light of day, over, and over, & over again. There’s only us to rake them across the coals. There’s only painful cultural shifts to make change.
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Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist.
Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.
Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.
February 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist.
Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.
Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.
Also misogynist. Also ableist. Also transphobic. Also homophobic. And on and on.
Just be authentic in your words.
Just be authentic in your words.
Sometimes white people try to be sarcastically racist & it's like huh? It really doesn't come off as parody. They think they have cred from previously not being racist that folks would be sure they don't mean it. That's not so, they're white. Don't be sarcastically racist because we sure can't tell.
February 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Also misogynist. Also ableist. Also transphobic. Also homophobic. And on and on.
Just be authentic in your words.
Just be authentic in your words.
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::taps mic::
beyond being an absolutely miserable illness, measles can cause immune amnesia. It wipes out your immune systems memory of how to fight every infection, every vaccine you've ever had.
beyond being an absolutely miserable illness, measles can cause immune amnesia. It wipes out your immune systems memory of how to fight every infection, every vaccine you've ever had.
A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate | CNN
A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.
www.cnn.com
February 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
::taps mic::
beyond being an absolutely miserable illness, measles can cause immune amnesia. It wipes out your immune systems memory of how to fight every infection, every vaccine you've ever had.
beyond being an absolutely miserable illness, measles can cause immune amnesia. It wipes out your immune systems memory of how to fight every infection, every vaccine you've ever had.
#witch
Friendly reminder to all - this weekend is Imbolc, the most hope-centric of all pagan holidays.
It’s about the fires of the forge giving us the tools we need, poetry helping shape our emotions into actions, and planning the foundations of the new world we find ourselves living in.
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Friendly reminder to all - this weekend is Imbolc, the most hope-centric of all pagan holidays.
It’s about the fires of the forge giving us the tools we need, poetry helping shape our emotions into actions, and planning the foundations of the new world we find ourselves living in.
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January 30, 2026 at 6:35 PM
#witch
Friendly reminder to all - this weekend is Imbolc, the most hope-centric of all pagan holidays.
It’s about the fires of the forge giving us the tools we need, poetry helping shape our emotions into actions, and planning the foundations of the new world we find ourselves living in.
1/
Friendly reminder to all - this weekend is Imbolc, the most hope-centric of all pagan holidays.
It’s about the fires of the forge giving us the tools we need, poetry helping shape our emotions into actions, and planning the foundations of the new world we find ourselves living in.
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The state of american politics is that one major party wants to kill you while the other simply wants you to die
January 29, 2026 at 10:13 PM
The state of american politics is that one major party wants to kill you while the other simply wants you to die
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I’m going to be shutting my shop down for the day and providing links to places where you can put your money instead.
Do what you can, keep pushing
Do what you can, keep pushing
January 30, 2026 at 4:07 AM
I’m going to be shutting my shop down for the day and providing links to places where you can put your money instead.
Do what you can, keep pushing
Do what you can, keep pushing
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It's not just "stand up to ICE when you see them," it's building many vast networks of support and trust to
- create safe spaces
- protect schools
- get kids TO school
- check on neighbors
- deliver groceries
- help pay the rent
- let people know of danger
- feed the helpers, too!
- and on and on
- create safe spaces
- protect schools
- get kids TO school
- check on neighbors
- deliver groceries
- help pay the rent
- let people know of danger
- feed the helpers, too!
- and on and on
January 29, 2026 at 4:19 PM
It's not just "stand up to ICE when you see them," it's building many vast networks of support and trust to
- create safe spaces
- protect schools
- get kids TO school
- check on neighbors
- deliver groceries
- help pay the rent
- let people know of danger
- feed the helpers, too!
- and on and on
- create safe spaces
- protect schools
- get kids TO school
- check on neighbors
- deliver groceries
- help pay the rent
- let people know of danger
- feed the helpers, too!
- and on and on
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
January 28, 2026 at 11:30 PM
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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Look if Minnesota is the hub then it's a Purple Revolution.
If we're gonna have to have a color revolution, we should pick a good color.
January 28, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Look if Minnesota is the hub then it's a Purple Revolution.
The season between Yule and Imbolc is for Accepting the world as it is, but at Imbolc we light the fires and Plan for this new world.
February 1st is the moment to meet with your community and form your resistance. The balance will shift at the Equinox - be prepared to set plans in motion.
#witch
February 1st is the moment to meet with your community and form your resistance. The balance will shift at the Equinox - be prepared to set plans in motion.
#witch
you can’t be shocked anymore. Wherever you are, you need to be planning for what you will do when ICE comes to your city. If you are in a PTA, block club, church, book club, rec league basketball—start organizing grocery pickups and school carpools and whistle patrols. Start now
January 28, 2026 at 1:24 AM
The season between Yule and Imbolc is for Accepting the world as it is, but at Imbolc we light the fires and Plan for this new world.
February 1st is the moment to meet with your community and form your resistance. The balance will shift at the Equinox - be prepared to set plans in motion.
#witch
February 1st is the moment to meet with your community and form your resistance. The balance will shift at the Equinox - be prepared to set plans in motion.
#witch
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"Non-violent tactics that waste a company’s time or money are really effective. For Enterprise, we’ve made and cancelled car reservations, saying the roads are too icy. At Home Depot... people [lined] up to buy ice scrapers and then getting in line to return them, in a way that clogs the lines."
"We had one hotel publicly refuse to house ICE, which became a big national news story when DHS went after them. That’s a hotel we were targeting, and it was mostly because of our pressure. We had two more hotels temporarily shut down to avoid housing ICE..."
www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...
www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...
How to Block ICE In Your City
Minneapolis organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay on effective tactics to disrupt ICE—and the need to target corporate collaborators
www.laborpolitics.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:05 PM
"Non-violent tactics that waste a company’s time or money are really effective. For Enterprise, we’ve made and cancelled car reservations, saying the roads are too icy. At Home Depot... people [lined] up to buy ice scrapers and then getting in line to return them, in a way that clogs the lines."
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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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There are people trying to stop others from using whistles, and next they'll say it's ableism.
As your disability advocate friend, I will be the first with serious sensory sensitivity to say that I would rather be in pain than someone get abducted, or shot.
Block/mute this argument, it's an op.
As your disability advocate friend, I will be the first with serious sensory sensitivity to say that I would rather be in pain than someone get abducted, or shot.
Block/mute this argument, it's an op.
January 26, 2026 at 2:46 PM
There are people trying to stop others from using whistles, and next they'll say it's ableism.
As your disability advocate friend, I will be the first with serious sensory sensitivity to say that I would rather be in pain than someone get abducted, or shot.
Block/mute this argument, it's an op.
As your disability advocate friend, I will be the first with serious sensory sensitivity to say that I would rather be in pain than someone get abducted, or shot.
Block/mute this argument, it's an op.
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yes.
just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now
Our government is murdering the citizens of this country. They are doing it without any checks on their violence
January 25, 2026 at 12:25 PM
yes.
This *is* a civil war.
I’m already clarifying “the American civil war of the 1860s” to differentiate it from now.
I live in a Republican held state south of MN & I’m scared we will become a staging ground for an invasion. The Governor is super fascist. She will call up troops for him.
I’m already clarifying “the American civil war of the 1860s” to differentiate it from now.
I live in a Republican held state south of MN & I’m scared we will become a staging ground for an invasion. The Governor is super fascist. She will call up troops for him.
‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war
Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:16 PM
This *is* a civil war.
I’m already clarifying “the American civil war of the 1860s” to differentiate it from now.
I live in a Republican held state south of MN & I’m scared we will become a staging ground for an invasion. The Governor is super fascist. She will call up troops for him.
I’m already clarifying “the American civil war of the 1860s” to differentiate it from now.
I live in a Republican held state south of MN & I’m scared we will become a staging ground for an invasion. The Governor is super fascist. She will call up troops for him.
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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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this is it. this is the level. this is the standard for democratic officials. anything less is intolerable.
January 24, 2026 at 9:09 PM
this is it. this is the level. this is the standard for democratic officials. anything less is intolerable.
This is not the shooting, this is a video of the scene moments before. Watching will give you perspective and you will not see a man murdered.
Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.
January 24, 2026 at 7:04 PM
This is not the shooting, this is a video of the scene moments before. Watching will give you perspective and you will not see a man murdered.
When people are talking about how it’s good that we have a Republican Governor in this state because that means he won’t be targeting us for a while… that’s how appeasement becomes complicit in the horrors.
Instead of being relieved that an elected official isn’t doing anything, be furious.
Instead of being relieved that an elected official isn’t doing anything, be furious.
January 24, 2026 at 5:36 PM
When people are talking about how it’s good that we have a Republican Governor in this state because that means he won’t be targeting us for a while… that’s how appeasement becomes complicit in the horrors.
Instead of being relieved that an elected official isn’t doing anything, be furious.
Instead of being relieved that an elected official isn’t doing anything, be furious.