Rebecca Larson
@rebeccalarson.bsky.social
Writer, activist, traveller, Spanish-learner.
Grateful to Jess and so many others listened last night to the story of what happened at the MN Capitol on Saturday. We wanted to tell the story of 80K Minnesotans who showed up in spite of their grieving and their fear, and who needed to be together in solidarity. #nokings @ashdashlee.bsky.social
To the co-leaders of @indivistwincities.bsky.social thank you.
For your deeply moving words.
For holding space for the 80K MN residents who showed up on Saturday even *after* the right-wing assassin struck.
For standing for good in the face of evil.
Proud to be on your team. ❤️
#nokings
For your deeply moving words.
For holding space for the 80K MN residents who showed up on Saturday even *after* the right-wing assassin struck.
For standing for good in the face of evil.
Proud to be on your team. ❤️
#nokings
June 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Grateful to Jess and so many others listened last night to the story of what happened at the MN Capitol on Saturday. We wanted to tell the story of 80K Minnesotans who showed up in spite of their grieving and their fear, and who needed to be together in solidarity. #nokings @ashdashlee.bsky.social
For @jenpsaki.msnbc.com @nytimes.com and others who rptd that the rally in St. Paul MN had been cancelled. Here's what a cancelled rally looks like. 80K both grieving the loss of Melissa and Mark Hortman, and claiming their power over Kings. @indivistwincities.bsky.social @indivisible.org #nokings
June 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
For @jenpsaki.msnbc.com @nytimes.com and others who rptd that the rally in St. Paul MN had been cancelled. Here's what a cancelled rally looks like. 80K both grieving the loss of Melissa and Mark Hortman, and claiming their power over Kings. @indivistwincities.bsky.social @indivisible.org #nokings
And let's not forget that Donald Trump got the most due process of them all.
This isn’t hard.
Everyone gets due process. EVERYONE GETS DUE PROCESS. Everyone. Gets. Due. Process.
Everyone gets due process. EVERYONE GETS DUE PROCESS. Everyone. Gets. Due. Process.
Kristi Noem on Abrego Garcia's wife: "Is she still scared? So many people and victims I've worked with over the years, they say one thing in public because they have to to survive or to protect their children. So I wouldn't say that what she's saying today is how she really feels."
May 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
And let's not forget that Donald Trump got the most due process of them all.
@smith.senate.gov and @amyklobuchar.com why have you not come out with a similar statement?
March 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
@smith.senate.gov and @amyklobuchar.com why have you not come out with a similar statement?
Reposted by Rebecca Larson
As was said beautifully over on TikTok, Republicans believe money that goes to people instead of to corporations and billionaires is the fraud. Republicans think the waste is *us*. They don’t give a shit about any of us.
Trump’s federal firings imperil government services from cities to farm towns
The cuts were initially poised to affect nuclear defense programs and impact veterans’ mental health care, workers warned.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
As was said beautifully over on TikTok, Republicans believe money that goes to people instead of to corporations and billionaires is the fraud. Republicans think the waste is *us*. They don’t give a shit about any of us.
When Trump utters the oath "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
what brave soul is going to stand up and shout "LIAR!!"?
what brave soul is going to stand up and shout "LIAR!!"?
January 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
When Trump utters the oath "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
what brave soul is going to stand up and shout "LIAR!!"?
what brave soul is going to stand up and shout "LIAR!!"?
Reposted by Rebecca Larson
Look I get everyone’s cynicism and despair but yes…it does matter that Senate Democrats fought back today. It will matter every day. We have to show the fence sitters and people that stayed home the truth. Will it stop these nominations? I don’t know but we all must fight. Don’t throw your hands up.
January 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Look I get everyone’s cynicism and despair but yes…it does matter that Senate Democrats fought back today. It will matter every day. We have to show the fence sitters and people that stayed home the truth. Will it stop these nominations? I don’t know but we all must fight. Don’t throw your hands up.
Yes, AND maybe if WAPO or other news outlets had done these kinds of surveys before the election, well...
People voted for a fictional Trump they made up in their heads and the question is whether the massive propaganda apparatus behind him can maintain that fiction while he does all the things many of his voters told themselves he wouldn’t do bsky.app/profile/carl...
WAPO POLL: “.. Would you support or oppose the Trump administration doing each of the following?”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Yes, AND maybe if WAPO or other news outlets had done these kinds of surveys before the election, well...
Everyone should read this, including men who may be advocating for their pregnant partners.
www.propublica.org/article/misc...
www.propublica.org/article/misc...
If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...
www.propublica.org
December 19, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Everyone should read this, including men who may be advocating for their pregnant partners.
www.propublica.org/article/misc...
www.propublica.org/article/misc...
RFK Jr. is a health hazard. When I got the polio vaccine as a kid I was fully aware that because of it I would not suffer the same fate as my beloved aunt who got polio during the epidemic and struggled with mobility her whole life. RFK's stance on vaccines alone disqualifies him from the HHS job.
December 14, 2024 at 5:06 PM
RFK Jr. is a health hazard. When I got the polio vaccine as a kid I was fully aware that because of it I would not suffer the same fate as my beloved aunt who got polio during the epidemic and struggled with mobility her whole life. RFK's stance on vaccines alone disqualifies him from the HHS job.
Yowza
A bottle of water has a 1000x price markup. It’s the equivalent of paying $3000 for an ice cream cone. And it needs far too much water, oil & pollution and GHGs to make the bottle, which too often ends up in the ocean.
So why do we buy bottled water again?
HT ScienceWorld Vancouver #plasticfree
So why do we buy bottled water again?
HT ScienceWorld Vancouver #plasticfree
December 14, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Yowza
Truth
imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio
December 14, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Truth
I agree with @ezralevin.bsky.social
Polarization against fascism is a good thing.
Lots of good examples out there right now for how the “polarization” concept is useful if you want to sound serious by lamenting the state of American politics but don’t understand or deliberately want to obscure the fact that the major threat to democracy is a radicalizing Right.
December 13, 2024 at 10:38 PM
I agree with @ezralevin.bsky.social
he's flat-out dumb
December 10, 2024 at 2:59 AM
he's flat-out dumb
Someone should ask Musk to use his money to buy us Medicare-for-All.
Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead
December 6, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Someone should ask Musk to use his money to buy us Medicare-for-All.
I've never cared so much about who gets the DNC job as I do now. I'm all in for @benwikler.bsky.social . (as a current Minnesotan and former Wisconsinite)
Joining @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social momentarily to talk DNC race
December 2, 2024 at 2:04 PM
I've never cared so much about who gets the DNC job as I do now. I'm all in for @benwikler.bsky.social . (as a current Minnesotan and former Wisconsinite)
As a former Wisconsinite, I strongly approve. This guy needs the DNC job and we need him.
Ben Wikler understands how to organize and communicate. www.wisn.com/article/wisc...
Wisconsin Democratic Chair Ben Wikler launches bid for DNC Chair
WISN 12 News Political Director Matt Smith confirms Wikler will announce his bid Sunday morning
www.wisn.com
December 1, 2024 at 1:26 PM
As a former Wisconsinite, I strongly approve. This guy needs the DNC job and we need him.
My choice for 2024 Word of the Year is: WE TOLD YOU SO.
(and not Oxford's "demure" or MW's "authentic")
(and not Oxford's "demure" or MW's "authentic")
December 1, 2024 at 1:20 PM
My choice for 2024 Word of the Year is: WE TOLD YOU SO.
(and not Oxford's "demure" or MW's "authentic")
(and not Oxford's "demure" or MW's "authentic")
It cleaned up good.
An astonishing piece of work. Notre Dame cathedral has been transformed.
Imagine what a 12th Century peasant would have thought?
Imagine what a 12th Century peasant would have thought?
November 30, 2024 at 10:35 PM
It cleaned up good.
Reposted by Rebecca Larson
No one said republican voters were smart.
November 28, 2024 at 7:43 PM
No one said republican voters were smart.
I don't think anyone in the media ever asked Trump to explain how tariffs work, just liked they never asked him to explain the Great and the Again in MAGA. He obviously still doesn't know how tariffs work. Or I guess he could just be lying to us about how tariffs work. You decide.
November 27, 2024 at 2:45 AM
I don't think anyone in the media ever asked Trump to explain how tariffs work, just liked they never asked him to explain the Great and the Again in MAGA. He obviously still doesn't know how tariffs work. Or I guess he could just be lying to us about how tariffs work. You decide.
"Ninety-four percent of Black women voters voted for the Democratic ticket."
Democrats’ Policies Help Americans. The Right Wing Echo-Chamber Drowned Them Out | Dame Magazine
I’ve had a job since I was 14 years old. I’ve spent most of it working in the service industry. I have always been part of the working class here in America. The characteristics of the working class t...
www.damemagazine.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:38 AM
"Ninety-four percent of Black women voters voted for the Democratic ticket."
In the days before the election, while canvassing, it seemed in desperation we were still looking for those "undecided voters". I kept thinking "the most important election of our lifetime hinges on the decisions of the least engaged and most ill-informed people in our entire effing country."
the thing about being a political junkie is you have extremely difficult time conceptualizing how someone could be totally ignorant of politics but i would strongly encourage you to imagine the kind of person who googled “did biden drop out?” on november 4th and then cast a ballot on november 5th
November 18, 2024 at 4:48 PM
In the days before the election, while canvassing, it seemed in desperation we were still looking for those "undecided voters". I kept thinking "the most important election of our lifetime hinges on the decisions of the least engaged and most ill-informed people in our entire effing country."
I want to see that ethics report. @ilhanmn.bsky.social please do what you can.
Every American deserves to see the Matt Gaetz ethics report.
Repost if you agree.
Repost if you agree.
November 15, 2024 at 7:48 PM
I want to see that ethics report. @ilhanmn.bsky.social please do what you can.