Lauren
@tinydancer84.bsky.social
Therapist
Dancer
Abolitionist
"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." - Lilla Watson
Dancer
Abolitionist
"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." - Lilla Watson
She literally just asked a question and they forcibly removed her. Where are all of you so called "supporters of free speech" when it's not hate speech being thrown around? I guess as long as you get to yell the n-word and the r-word, that's as far as "free speech" needs to go?
Emily Feiner was forcibly removed from GOP Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall after she asked her so-called "moderate" congressman to stand up to Donald Trump's authoritarian power grab.
There's a great pushback happening across the entire country — even in Republican held districts.
There's a great pushback happening across the entire country — even in Republican held districts.
May 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
She literally just asked a question and they forcibly removed her. Where are all of you so called "supporters of free speech" when it's not hate speech being thrown around? I guess as long as you get to yell the n-word and the r-word, that's as far as "free speech" needs to go?
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"Ultimately, several service members told Military.com they feel Hegseth's idea of what a defense secretary is expected to do doesn't line up with what the job actually requires of him."
MORE: www.military.com/daily-news/2...
MORE: www.military.com/daily-news/2...
May 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Ultimately, several service members told Military.com they feel Hegseth's idea of what a defense secretary is expected to do doesn't line up with what the job actually requires of him."
MORE: www.military.com/daily-news/2...
MORE: www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Everything that bigot touches is infused with her beliefs, whether blatant or not. I will not be watching or reading anymore of her work. #TransWomenAreWomen
An HBO executive has promised fans of the Harry Potter franchise that the upcoming reboot television series will not be “infused” with J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans beliefs.
HBO Exec Promises 'Harry Potter' Series 'Not Secretly Being Infused' With J.K. Rowling's Anti-Trans Rhetoric
An HBO exec has promised fans of the Harry Potter franchise that the upcoming TV series will not be "infused" with J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans beliefs.
rollingstone.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Everything that bigot touches is infused with her beliefs, whether blatant or not. I will not be watching or reading anymore of her work. #TransWomenAreWomen
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I can’t stress enough that mutual aid needs to be the foundation of whatever gets built after this shitshow ends.
April 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I can’t stress enough that mutual aid needs to be the foundation of whatever gets built after this shitshow ends.
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Happy National Library Week! If you don't have a library card, go get one. If you have one, use it!
Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections.
Use it or lose it!
Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections.
Use it or lose it!
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Happy National Library Week! If you don't have a library card, go get one. If you have one, use it!
Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections.
Use it or lose it!
Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections.
Use it or lose it!
Ideas for how to prepare for what's coming: ko-fi.com/post/Things-...
Things You Should Do If You Are An American Planning on Staying
Sharon Astyk published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Ideas for how to prepare for what's coming: ko-fi.com/post/Things-...
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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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Piss off a fascist: check out banned books from your library (even if you don't have time to read them). Here are two lists to get you started.
www.collegetransitions.com/blog/banned-...
pen.org/banned-books...
www.collegetransitions.com/blog/banned-...
pen.org/banned-books...
Banned Books List - 2025
Banned Books List - We look at the most commonly banned books in 2024 and 2025 in the early days of the second Trump administration.
www.collegetransitions.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Piss off a fascist: check out banned books from your library (even if you don't have time to read them). Here are two lists to get you started.
www.collegetransitions.com/blog/banned-...
pen.org/banned-books...
www.collegetransitions.com/blog/banned-...
pen.org/banned-books...
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Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
March 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
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“First they came for the…”
Look, everyone has their own deals, I get it. But eventually mysterious “Antifa” is gonna be listed as terrorist organization and then it’s slippery slope towards everyone that says Trump bad is Antifa.
This is the shit to care about and now is the time to care about it
Look, everyone has their own deals, I get it. But eventually mysterious “Antifa” is gonna be listed as terrorist organization and then it’s slippery slope towards everyone that says Trump bad is Antifa.
This is the shit to care about and now is the time to care about it
i am not even close to the first person to say something like this but they disappeared a palestinian student from columbia because they’re hoping last year’s flood of campus misinformation focused on that school has stripped away our empathy for those who protested there. do not let them succeed!!
“The illiberal left?”
“The techniques of wokeness being worryingly exercised by the state?!”
Sounds like some campus misinformation, no?
“The techniques of wokeness being worryingly exercised by the state?!”
Sounds like some campus misinformation, no?
March 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
“First they came for the…”
Look, everyone has their own deals, I get it. But eventually mysterious “Antifa” is gonna be listed as terrorist organization and then it’s slippery slope towards everyone that says Trump bad is Antifa.
This is the shit to care about and now is the time to care about it
Look, everyone has their own deals, I get it. But eventually mysterious “Antifa” is gonna be listed as terrorist organization and then it’s slippery slope towards everyone that says Trump bad is Antifa.
This is the shit to care about and now is the time to care about it
I understand the urge to be happy when the leopards eat faces. Believe me, I think it too. But if we want to win against fascism, this is the response we need to have when someone realizes Trump doesn't give a shit about them. We don't have to be besties. But we need all the allies we can get.
March 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I understand the urge to be happy when the leopards eat faces. Believe me, I think it too. But if we want to win against fascism, this is the response we need to have when someone realizes Trump doesn't give a shit about them. We don't have to be besties. But we need all the allies we can get.
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What a different world we could have.
March 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What a different world we could have.
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Give you one guess
March 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Give you one guess
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This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.
March 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.
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Purchase 'Workplace Neurodiversity Rising' to help support an author who has pulled their book from Amazon in protest of their walking back DEI efforts under the current administration : open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
I Pulled My Self-Published Book from Amazon on Friday and Now I Need Your Help More than Ever
If you'd told my past self I'd be pulling this book off of Amazon (after all the extra time, effort, energy, and money getting it set up took), I'm not sure if past me would believe it.
open.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Purchase 'Workplace Neurodiversity Rising' to help support an author who has pulled their book from Amazon in protest of their walking back DEI efforts under the current administration : open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
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Help a group of Utah filmmakers make a pro-abortion comedy in a red, anti-abortion state!
Any amount helps!
Even just a repost helps!
THANK YOU ALL FOR GETTING US THIS FAR!
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Help a group of Utah filmmakers make a pro-abortion comedy in a red, anti-abortion state!
Any amount helps!
Even just a repost helps!
THANK YOU ALL FOR GETTING US THIS FAR!
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March 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Help a group of Utah filmmakers make a pro-abortion comedy in a red, anti-abortion state!
Any amount helps!
Even just a repost helps!
THANK YOU ALL FOR GETTING US THIS FAR!
www.indiegogo.com/projects/hoe...
Help a group of Utah filmmakers make a pro-abortion comedy in a red, anti-abortion state!
Any amount helps!
Even just a repost helps!
THANK YOU ALL FOR GETTING US THIS FAR!
www.indiegogo.com/projects/hoe...
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i’m reading Steve Harvey’s dating advice book and there’s a bit where he has a meltdown whenever his wife does anything adventurous, and he frames it as his masculine drive to protect her
People assume Andrew Cuomo is tough and A Fighter because he always looks angry and acts weird. Mistaking a total lack of emotional self-regulation and wild, self-destructive spite for Masculine Strength is one of the defining political errors to me. No one even tries to keep it together anymore.
March 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
i’m reading Steve Harvey’s dating advice book and there’s a bit where he has a meltdown whenever his wife does anything adventurous, and he frames it as his masculine drive to protect her
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Elon updated DOGE, claiming to have fixed the mistakes we all pointed out. But instead of correcting them, he just added more false claims. He even inflated his so-called “savings” total from $55 billion to $65 billion, when in reality, the actual increase is only from $2 billion to $2.3 billion.
March 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Elon updated DOGE, claiming to have fixed the mistakes we all pointed out. But instead of correcting them, he just added more false claims. He even inflated his so-called “savings” total from $55 billion to $65 billion, when in reality, the actual increase is only from $2 billion to $2.3 billion.
Great read: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m a pediatrician in Texas. Things are dire and we need your support – not your condescension | Seema Jilani
Nothing I have done is more impactful than a day’s work in this battleground in the south, the graveyard of politicians’ abandoned promises
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Great read: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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there were 10 days in all of 2024 where no police killings were reported. this number has been going up for the last 5 years.
Police killed at least 1,365 people in the U.S. in 2024, making it the deadliest year on record. Black and Indigenous people were disproportionately targeted with both groups roughly 3 times more likely to be killed by police than white people.
Report: US Police Killed Someone Every 6.5 Hours on Average in 2024
Police killings hit a record high last year, with Black and Indigenous people disproportionately targeted.
buff.ly
February 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
there were 10 days in all of 2024 where no police killings were reported. this number has been going up for the last 5 years.