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Emilie Braxten
@embraxten.bsky.social
many things to many people; sister, partner, mom, ally, nature lover, RN, teacher, life-long learner, hiker, fbcwoo fan, pediatric palliative LMT 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ proud woke liberal democrat
what the fuck is wrong with this guy?
Donny can't even pretend to care about helping
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November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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This is an excellent idea!!!
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
October 18 in DC ❤️🤍💙
October 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I can't even with this administration's chronic disinformation and blatant lies.
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"a new level of unhinged...."
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September 6, 2025
Today the social media account of President Donald J.
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September 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Thanks, Jeff. We should all be so outraged.
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shove your thoughts and prayers
we’ve been thinking and praying since Columbine — and it hasn’t done shit
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August 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“Things People are Begging for: 1. Cheaper groceries 2. No Medicaid and SNAP cuts 3. Release of the Epstein Files.... Things People are NOT begging for: 1. An authoritarian power grab of major cities.”
- J.B. Pritzker, Illinois governor

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August 22, 2025
In these last days of August, with Congress on hiatus and the Epstein files looming, the Trump White House appears to be making a big move to consolidate power over the federal government, weaponize i...
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August 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"A lot of us are swearing a lot more than we used to...." -Gov. Gavin Newsom
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Live with Heather Cox Richardson
A recording from Heather Cox Richardson's live video
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August 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A guide to Trumpspeak…
August 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
August 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Garden of conspiracy…
August 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
"Grief is a Form of Patriotism, Too...."
(Rev. Benjamin Cremer)
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July 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"We the People are the ones who must act to reclaim America."
(Wm. J Barber, II & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove)

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Let us not go gently into the night
Half of all Americans who have ever lived are alive right now.
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June 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
“[i]f some of us can be snatched off the streets... based only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us are safe. Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves. But they do not stop there.”
- Gov Newsom

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-10-2025
June 10, 2025
Today President Donald J.
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June 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Unprecedented, indeed!!
In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented.
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
June 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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On Friday afternoon, thousands of veterans who fought wars on behalf of the United States descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to fight something else: cuts proposed by the Trump administration.

“Veterans are the canary in the coal mine.”
June 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"Remigration"...?!!
"'All of it is pretty awful with some pieces that definitely violate existing law and treaties. But institutionalizing neo-Nazi theory as an office in the State Department is the most blatantly horrifying.'"

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May 30, 2025
In July 2024, according to an article published today by Kirsten Grind and Megan Twohey in the New York Times, billionaire Elon Musk texted privately about his concerns that government investigations ...
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May 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Trump hates his new nickname TACO so out of respect we made this song! 🌮 🕺🎶
May 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
“But meaningful change requires collective awakening and decisive action,” says Harfoush. “And we need to start now.”

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Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
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May 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I am so proud to be part of FBC Woo! www.facebook.com/share/p/14FK...
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May 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Unhinged.
May 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM