Lara Stapleton
@larastap.bsky.social
Author, The Ruin of Everything, Paloma Press. Prof., BMCC of CUNY. Mixed Filipino-Am. I love: books, my students who have excellent brains & deserve the world, historical linguistics, Austronesian brilliance, bingewatching, decent humans. Art is everything
This is a fckung abomination.
Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, believes his non-resident visa could have been rejected because he likened President Trump to a former Ugandan dictator. n.pr/3J8XXJN
Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka says U.S. revoked his visa after Trump criticism
Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, believes his non-resident visa could have been rejected because he likened President Trump to a former Ugandan dictator.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This is a fckung abomination.
And this money that corporations should pay employees goes to them as profit. We're funding their obscene wealth.
Walmart employees? On SNAP. Junior US military personnel with families? On SNAP. Wherever workers are being underpaid, they are on SNAP.
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
And this money that corporations should pay employees goes to them as profit. We're funding their obscene wealth.
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If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP.
A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.
I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.
A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.
I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.
October 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP.
A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.
I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.
A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.
I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.
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Oops!
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Oops!
What a beautiful thing it would be if, as SNAP benefits are withheld by our psychopathic government, middle class New Yorkers helped working class and poor New Yorkers eat, and if we did so visibly, loudly, enthusiastically...1/4
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
What a beautiful thing it would be if, as SNAP benefits are withheld by our psychopathic government, middle class New Yorkers helped working class and poor New Yorkers eat, and if we did so visibly, loudly, enthusiastically...1/4
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During circle time today, my daughter's class processed seeing a man get detained by ICE outside of their school.
Last week ICE pulled guns outside of my 7 y.o school. Today, it was outside of my 10 y.o's school.
Repubs want us to fear adults in drag around kids, I'm afraid of ICE agents in masks.
Last week ICE pulled guns outside of my 7 y.o school. Today, it was outside of my 10 y.o's school.
Repubs want us to fear adults in drag around kids, I'm afraid of ICE agents in masks.
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
During circle time today, my daughter's class processed seeing a man get detained by ICE outside of their school.
Last week ICE pulled guns outside of my 7 y.o school. Today, it was outside of my 10 y.o's school.
Repubs want us to fear adults in drag around kids, I'm afraid of ICE agents in masks.
Last week ICE pulled guns outside of my 7 y.o school. Today, it was outside of my 10 y.o's school.
Repubs want us to fear adults in drag around kids, I'm afraid of ICE agents in masks.
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Yes. They thought they could sneak out a SECOND $20 Billion bailout package and no one would notice because it was the same amount as the first one.
And just two weeks before the Argentinian elections, in order to shore up Trump's buddy's chances.
And just two weeks before the Argentinian elections, in order to shore up Trump's buddy's chances.
October 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Yes. They thought they could sneak out a SECOND $20 Billion bailout package and no one would notice because it was the same amount as the first one.
And just two weeks before the Argentinian elections, in order to shore up Trump's buddy's chances.
And just two weeks before the Argentinian elections, in order to shore up Trump's buddy's chances.
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The fact we’ve let the equivalent of three Nazis in a trench coat take over a supposed democracy of hundreds of millions warrants much more than prison for one man. It warrants the complete upheaval of the world order and banishment to the darkest depths forever 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
October 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The fact we’ve let the equivalent of three Nazis in a trench coat take over a supposed democracy of hundreds of millions warrants much more than prison for one man. It warrants the complete upheaval of the world order and banishment to the darkest depths forever 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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BREAKING: Antifa leader Habeas Corpus has been arrested in Portland.
October 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
BREAKING: Antifa leader Habeas Corpus has been arrested in Portland.
They have been slaughtering people all day. There is no ceasefire.
October 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
They have been slaughtering people all day. There is no ceasefire.
Six months for abusing a twelve-year-old? My GOD! People spent a decade in prison for marijuana.
Has Trump said anything about his former “spiritual leader”, Robert Morris, who was just sentenced to 6 months in prison for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl? Will the media even bother to ask him?
October 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Six months for abusing a twelve-year-old? My GOD! People spent a decade in prison for marijuana.
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This seems like incitement to violence against judges.
October 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This seems like incitement to violence against judges.
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WTF Dems in #Congress
Fight for Adelina Grijalva to be seated to Release the #EpsteinFiles before the fat lying criminal grifter pedo has them all redacted or destroyed - oopsie 🤷♀️
This is your best oppty to stop him and his minions from destroying the #Constitution to distract #MAGA from pedos.
Fight for Adelina Grijalva to be seated to Release the #EpsteinFiles before the fat lying criminal grifter pedo has them all redacted or destroyed - oopsie 🤷♀️
This is your best oppty to stop him and his minions from destroying the #Constitution to distract #MAGA from pedos.
October 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
WTF Dems in #Congress
Fight for Adelina Grijalva to be seated to Release the #EpsteinFiles before the fat lying criminal grifter pedo has them all redacted or destroyed - oopsie 🤷♀️
This is your best oppty to stop him and his minions from destroying the #Constitution to distract #MAGA from pedos.
Fight for Adelina Grijalva to be seated to Release the #EpsteinFiles before the fat lying criminal grifter pedo has them all redacted or destroyed - oopsie 🤷♀️
This is your best oppty to stop him and his minions from destroying the #Constitution to distract #MAGA from pedos.
Dems are not fighting for Adelita Grijalva because she rejected AIPAC money.
October 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Dems are not fighting for Adelita Grijalva because she rejected AIPAC money.
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Maybe… it’s time to let the Red states rot. They’d do it to us.
August 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Maybe… it’s time to let the Red states rot. They’d do it to us.
Then we withhold our taxes from the federal government. The blue states fund the red states.
AG Bondi on mayors and governors in blue states:
“If they don’t comply with us…We’re going to…cut off their federal funding. We are going to send in law enforcement…just like we’re doing here in Washington, D.C.”
“If they don’t comply with us…We’re going to…cut off their federal funding. We are going to send in law enforcement…just like we’re doing here in Washington, D.C.”
August 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Then we withhold our taxes from the federal government. The blue states fund the red states.
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AG Bondi on mayors and governors in blue states:
“If they don’t comply with us…We’re going to…cut off their federal funding. We are going to send in law enforcement…just like we’re doing here in Washington, D.C.”
“If they don’t comply with us…We’re going to…cut off their federal funding. We are going to send in law enforcement…just like we’re doing here in Washington, D.C.”
August 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
AG Bondi on mayors and governors in blue states:
“If they don’t comply with us…We’re going to…cut off their federal funding. We are going to send in law enforcement…just like we’re doing here in Washington, D.C.”
“If they don’t comply with us…We’re going to…cut off their federal funding. We are going to send in law enforcement…just like we’re doing here in Washington, D.C.”
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Governors of Six (red) states have sent their states' national guard troops to – and now occupy – (blue) Washington D.C.
What would you call this?
Historians will call it civil war.
What would you call this?
Historians will call it civil war.
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Governors of Six (red) states have sent their states' national guard troops to – and now occupy – (blue) Washington D.C.
What would you call this?
Historians will call it civil war.
What would you call this?
Historians will call it civil war.
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Not all pardoned insurrectionists are ICE agents but all ICE agents are pardoned insurrectionists
August 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Not all pardoned insurrectionists are ICE agents but all ICE agents are pardoned insurrectionists
An ad by dems that just listed benefits that other wealthy countries have...Western Europe, Japan SKorea, would be insanely effective. Universal health care, free transpo and education...But most dems are owned by corporations and they don't want such things. >>>>more
August 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
An ad by dems that just listed benefits that other wealthy countries have...Western Europe, Japan SKorea, would be insanely effective. Universal health care, free transpo and education...But most dems are owned by corporations and they don't want such things. >>>>more
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