Eileen Drennen
@eileen527.bsky.social
Writer, editor, reader
First mom, Open Records advocate
Binders CNF
Memoir on submission
Write the story only you can tell
https://linktr.ee/EileenDrennen
First mom, Open Records advocate
Binders CNF
Memoir on submission
Write the story only you can tell
https://linktr.ee/EileenDrennen
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"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Lafayette, IN showed up yesterday, as did thousands of other towns, here and overseas
We expected hundreds of thousands of people yesterday.
Instead, millions of Americans flooded the streets to demand an end to Trump’s authoritarian power grab.
Trump and Musk have spent their first 75 days in office trying to overwhelm us and make us feel powerless, but we’re not going anywhere.
Instead, millions of Americans flooded the streets to demand an end to Trump’s authoritarian power grab.
Trump and Musk have spent their first 75 days in office trying to overwhelm us and make us feel powerless, but we’re not going anywhere.
April 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Lafayette, IN showed up yesterday, as did thousands of other towns, here and overseas
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This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society.
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
March 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society.
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
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Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
March 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
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Reposted by Eileen Drennen
"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States"
from @davidfrum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
from @davidfrum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
At Least Now We Know the Truth
It’s ugly, but necessary to face.
www.theatlantic.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States"
from @davidfrum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
from @davidfrum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Exactly. Democracy requires your bravery
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Exactly. Democracy requires your bravery
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February 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
February 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
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Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.
February 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.
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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
media.tenor.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
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Oh yes, I am a snowflake who can't handle uneducated social losers repetitively shouting slurs and bots re-posting the ravings of idiots who are themselves pawns suckered into defending the cruelty of oligarchs by declaiming political slogans. Oh wait, that wasn't what they meant by "echo chamber"?
To all the Muskrats saying BlueSky is just for the soft people who can’t handle tough conversations, and that the left can't handle free speech - cute theory, but no. It’s for people who know there’s a difference between ‘freedom of speech’ and the freedom to not engage with your emotional warfare.
November 28, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Oh yes, I am a snowflake who can't handle uneducated social losers repetitively shouting slurs and bots re-posting the ravings of idiots who are themselves pawns suckered into defending the cruelty of oligarchs by declaiming political slogans. Oh wait, that wasn't what they meant by "echo chamber"?
If you grow up in a house with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, you learn to surround yourself with book friends
November 15, 2024 at 12:35 PM
If you grow up in a house with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, you learn to surround yourself with book friends
Writing together — in workshops, writing groups or co-writing spaces — allows us to race past our inner brakes and censors to surprise ourselves in the page.
November 13, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Writing together — in workshops, writing groups or co-writing spaces — allows us to race past our inner brakes and censors to surprise ourselves in the page.