L. Deken
@bigheartliz.bsky.social
Mom of boys. Managing multiple chronic illnesses. Passionate supporter of the underdog and the resistance. Am a: nerd, empath, talker, reader, hugger, ant-racist, ally.
The authoritarian takeover continues
That’s not how our system is supposed to work, and it sets a dangerous precedent for authoritarian control over the rule of law.
July 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The authoritarian takeover continues
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I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions.
This is such a huge story.
This is such a huge story.
This should be seen as evidence of the crisis: federal judges fear that Trump will order U.S. Marshals to stand down on securing the safety of judges whose decision they don’t like. This is just devastating.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
May 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions.
This is such a huge story.
This is such a huge story.
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social is doing such important work. Not just to educate and inform, but to protect the literal heart of what's good about America with her pen and her voice. Thank you, Sarah.
Everyone else: follow this woman everywhere you can.
Everyone else: follow this woman everywhere you can.
National parks were the main places I wanted my kids to see, and I wrote about them in THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. Breaks my heart that the book is coming out as Trump tries to make good on his plans to destroy them. I hope my book helps the effort to fight back. www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social is doing such important work. Not just to educate and inform, but to protect the literal heart of what's good about America with her pen and her voice. Thank you, Sarah.
Everyone else: follow this woman everywhere you can.
Everyone else: follow this woman everywhere you can.
This is hope giving. Be the light in the dark times. Don't let the darkness snuff out your own light. Together we can be a fire. Let's burn, baby.
April 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is hope giving. Be the light in the dark times. Don't let the darkness snuff out your own light. Together we can be a fire. Let's burn, baby.
Generally I'm pretty good at adulting. I'm responsible, accountable, true to my word, collaborative, decent w/money, etc.
For some reason... I can't get my bra + shirt situation right. My bra strap is waaaay too often showing when I DON'T want it to. It's embarrassing 🙈 Help!? #fashionemergency
For some reason... I can't get my bra + shirt situation right. My bra strap is waaaay too often showing when I DON'T want it to. It's embarrassing 🙈 Help!? #fashionemergency
April 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Generally I'm pretty good at adulting. I'm responsible, accountable, true to my word, collaborative, decent w/money, etc.
For some reason... I can't get my bra + shirt situation right. My bra strap is waaaay too often showing when I DON'T want it to. It's embarrassing 🙈 Help!? #fashionemergency
For some reason... I can't get my bra + shirt situation right. My bra strap is waaaay too often showing when I DON'T want it to. It's embarrassing 🙈 Help!? #fashionemergency
#trumpstarriffs are so colossally horrid that literally no one but the would-be emperor's court says anything otherwise.
And he is indeed too prideful, malicious, childish and stupid to course correct.
And he is indeed too prideful, malicious, childish and stupid to course correct.
He’s rejecting zero percent reciprocal tariff proposal from Vietnam (similar proposal from the EU on the table)!
He could pivot and turn his colossal mistake into a huge win, but he’s too prideful, malicious and moronic to do it.
He could pivot and turn his colossal mistake into a huge win, but he’s too prideful, malicious and moronic to do it.
April 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
#trumpstarriffs are so colossally horrid that literally no one but the would-be emperor's court says anything otherwise.
And he is indeed too prideful, malicious, childish and stupid to course correct.
And he is indeed too prideful, malicious, childish and stupid to course correct.
Yes yes yes! And follow @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. She's been a modern day Cassandra for too long. Engine should know her and @hcrichardson.bsky.social. Get informed, get active, get in community, get loud.
It's great to see these protests nationwide. Keep at it. Don't bow down, don't submit -- don't ever stop looking out for each other.
Great turn-out at the protests in Madison, inspiration from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social as per usual.
April 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Yes yes yes! And follow @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. She's been a modern day Cassandra for too long. Engine should know her and @hcrichardson.bsky.social. Get informed, get active, get in community, get loud.
I stand in solidarity with all my brave people marching today. #handsoff - an important movement. It should get lot of media coverage. It needs to make a difference. Not to those in power (they do not care) but to the levers of power that act on them. May the odds ever be in our favor. #protests
April 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I just called my reps with @5calls.org. it's easy and quick and they give you useful scripts that you can modify. If these people elected to serve us aren't going to bother to do so the least we can do is flood their voicemails. 5calls.org
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
April 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I just called my reps with @5calls.org. it's easy and quick and they give you useful scripts that you can modify. If these people elected to serve us aren't going to bother to do so the least we can do is flood their voicemails. 5calls.org
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TDOV protest for trans rights! If you can't join the big march downtown, join our grassroots group in Maplewood, corner of Big Bend and Manchester, 4:45 until 6 pm on Monday, March 31. Family friendly. On FB as Mid-County Trans Day of Visibility Protest for Trans Rights
March 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
TDOV protest for trans rights! If you can't join the big march downtown, join our grassroots group in Maplewood, corner of Big Bend and Manchester, 4:45 until 6 pm on Monday, March 31. Family friendly. On FB as Mid-County Trans Day of Visibility Protest for Trans Rights
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March 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Read this thread. Trump is a treasonous traitor and should be in jail.
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Read this thread. Trump is a treasonous traitor and should be in jail.
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Mint Mobile is reportedly down for hundreds of users currently. Are you one of them? #MintMobileDown community.designtaxi.com/topic/9175-i...
Is Mint Mobile down?
Mint Mobile is reportedly down for hundreds of users on March 2, 2025. Based on the graph showing on the outage tracking service DownDetector, the volume of user reports surged around 6:30PM Eastern T...
community.designtaxi.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Mint Mobile is reportedly down for hundreds of users currently. Are you one of them? #MintMobileDown community.designtaxi.com/topic/9175-i...
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence #standupforscience
We can't go bank to the dark ages. Science is crucial. Flight for the right to know the facts and the truth about our bodies, the world, the universe we live in.
We can't go bank to the dark ages. Science is crucial. Flight for the right to know the facts and the truth about our bodies, the world, the universe we live in.
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence #standupforscience
We can't go bank to the dark ages. Science is crucial. Flight for the right to know the facts and the truth about our bodies, the world, the universe we live in.
We can't go bank to the dark ages. Science is crucial. Flight for the right to know the facts and the truth about our bodies, the world, the universe we live in.
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No Amazon. No Walmart. No Target. No Disney. No Google. No Apple. No Visa or Mastercard. And especially no Facebook. I will not be posting on Meta platforms for the next 24 hours in support of the economic blackout…
Can you say the same?! 🤚
Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
Can you say the same?! 🤚
Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
February 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
No Amazon. No Walmart. No Target. No Disney. No Google. No Apple. No Visa or Mastercard. And especially no Facebook. I will not be posting on Meta platforms for the next 24 hours in support of the economic blackout…
Can you say the same?! 🤚
Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
Can you say the same?! 🤚
Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
This is disgusting. Taking away the stewards of our natural resources and preventing the needed reprieve these places provide us deplorable. But then I guess abject cruelty is the point.
Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is disgusting. Taking away the stewards of our natural resources and preventing the needed reprieve these places provide us deplorable. But then I guess abject cruelty is the point.
What really struck me about this is that even now, amidst this crisis created by Republicans and their Chosen One, #democrats have the highest disapproval rating in the poll. If ever there was a time for a new liberal opposition party, it's NOW.
New Quinnipiac poll—
Congressional Republicans
Approve 40%
Disapprove 52%
Congressional Democrats
Approve 21%
Disapprove 68%
Elon Musk
Favorable 38%
Unfavorable 50%
Donald Trump
Approve 45%
Disapprove 49%
Trump plan to take Gaza
Pro 22%
Anti 62%
DEI policies
Good 53%
Bad 38%
Congressional Republicans
Approve 40%
Disapprove 52%
Congressional Democrats
Approve 21%
Disapprove 68%
Elon Musk
Favorable 38%
Unfavorable 50%
Donald Trump
Approve 45%
Disapprove 49%
Trump plan to take Gaza
Pro 22%
Anti 62%
DEI policies
Good 53%
Bad 38%
February 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
What really struck me about this is that even now, amidst this crisis created by Republicans and their Chosen One, #democrats have the highest disapproval rating in the poll. If ever there was a time for a new liberal opposition party, it's NOW.
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Some guerrilla art at this Brooklyn bus shelter.
February 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Some guerrilla art at this Brooklyn bus shelter.
I have the flu. I've done everything I was supposed to do.
I'm not immunocompromised but I do have chronic pain that gets MUCH WORSE when I have a nasty bug. I'm miserable.
We need to care more about each other. Period. CARING about other people is the goal.
Thank you.🙏 Send healing vibes.
I'm not immunocompromised but I do have chronic pain that gets MUCH WORSE when I have a nasty bug. I'm miserable.
We need to care more about each other. Period. CARING about other people is the goal.
Thank you.🙏 Send healing vibes.
February 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I have the flu. I've done everything I was supposed to do.
I'm not immunocompromised but I do have chronic pain that gets MUCH WORSE when I have a nasty bug. I'm miserable.
We need to care more about each other. Period. CARING about other people is the goal.
Thank you.🙏 Send healing vibes.
I'm not immunocompromised but I do have chronic pain that gets MUCH WORSE when I have a nasty bug. I'm miserable.
We need to care more about each other. Period. CARING about other people is the goal.
Thank you.🙏 Send healing vibes.
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Google maps shows the Gulf of Mexico as the falsely named "Gulf of America" and has DISABLED the ability to report it as inaccurate.
This feels very sinister and totalitarian to me. Anyone else?
This feels very sinister and totalitarian to me. Anyone else?
February 17, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Google maps shows the Gulf of Mexico as the falsely named "Gulf of America" and has DISABLED the ability to report it as inaccurate.
This feels very sinister and totalitarian to me. Anyone else?
This feels very sinister and totalitarian to me. Anyone else?
I'm very tired of snow and ice and bitter cold. I used to think I might want to move further north. I am pretty well cured of that fantasy now.
Anyone know where I can get a ticket to Middle Earth? I'd very much like to move into The Shire (post ring demise of course) right about now. #lotr
Anyone know where I can get a ticket to Middle Earth? I'd very much like to move into The Shire (post ring demise of course) right about now. #lotr
February 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I'm very tired of snow and ice and bitter cold. I used to think I might want to move further north. I am pretty well cured of that fantasy now.
Anyone know where I can get a ticket to Middle Earth? I'd very much like to move into The Shire (post ring demise of course) right about now. #lotr
Anyone know where I can get a ticket to Middle Earth? I'd very much like to move into The Shire (post ring demise of course) right about now. #lotr