Lauren
@brainstorm72.bsky.social
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
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The fight against fascism in America—the real mass fight—is in its early stages. We have a long road ahead of us. We need to think seriously about where we are and where we've been in order to engage that fight effectively.
October 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The fight against fascism in America—the real mass fight—is in its early stages. We have a long road ahead of us. We need to think seriously about where we are and where we've been in order to engage that fight effectively.
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WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org
October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org
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The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight
October 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight
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"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"
October 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"
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Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.
As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.
As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.
October 8, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.
As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.
As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.
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'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
October 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
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Look what’s chalked all over the sidewalks of Bloomfield, NJ.
Free speech is a power we should use while we can.
Chalk is cheap.
#NoKings October 18.
Free speech is a power we should use while we can.
Chalk is cheap.
#NoKings October 18.
October 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Look what’s chalked all over the sidewalks of Bloomfield, NJ.
Free speech is a power we should use while we can.
Chalk is cheap.
#NoKings October 18.
Free speech is a power we should use while we can.
Chalk is cheap.
#NoKings October 18.
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I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
October 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.
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It's so sad to me how media outlets continue to go out of their way to use euphemisms like "total control" and avoid accurately telling readers what this is. It's authoritarianism. There's a word for it. And it's important to use it. www.axios.com/2025/10/03/t...
Trump charts path to total control amid government shutdown
So far, the standoff is only emboldening the White House.
www.axios.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
It's so sad to me how media outlets continue to go out of their way to use euphemisms like "total control" and avoid accurately telling readers what this is. It's authoritarianism. There's a word for it. And it's important to use it. www.axios.com/2025/10/03/t...
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The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more.
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
September 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more.
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
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Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
September 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.
That's the revolution.
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I think media and many Dems are brainlocked into treating Trump as a politically strong figure because they mistake the consolidation of autocratic power for political invincibility.
But we shouldn't do that. He's both an autocrat and a ludicrous, inept figure. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
But we shouldn't do that. He's both an autocrat and a ludicrous, inept figure. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
September 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I think media and many Dems are brainlocked into treating Trump as a politically strong figure because they mistake the consolidation of autocratic power for political invincibility.
But we shouldn't do that. He's both an autocrat and a ludicrous, inept figure. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
But we shouldn't do that. He's both an autocrat and a ludicrous, inept figure. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2000...
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I consider it an act of media collusion how little coverage protests of Trump get. Like 100x the size of tea party shit.
September 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I consider it an act of media collusion how little coverage protests of Trump get. Like 100x the size of tea party shit.
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It's important to know what we're dealing with. Though some in the media still try to horse-race, both sides this, we're faced with psychopaths at the helm of our nation's public health, scientific and healthcare efforts. They want to inflict pain and suffering. It's a goal, not a by-product. 6/
August 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
It's important to know what we're dealing with. Though some in the media still try to horse-race, both sides this, we're faced with psychopaths at the helm of our nation's public health, scientific and healthcare efforts. They want to inflict pain and suffering. It's a goal, not a by-product. 6/
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NEW: Over the past four months, I documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions.
This is how CECOT left a mark on my countrymen, their loved ones and Venezuela.
This is how CECOT left a mark on my countrymen, their loved ones and Venezuela.
What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen
Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men,…
www.propublica.org
August 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
NEW: Over the past four months, I documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions.
This is how CECOT left a mark on my countrymen, their loved ones and Venezuela.
This is how CECOT left a mark on my countrymen, their loved ones and Venezuela.
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She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩
August 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩
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Every day, I am thinking about what this means for 2028.
Soldiers in MRAPs rolling around Union Station—blocks from the Capitol—seems silly, performative, and useless.
But it raises a much darker question:
What would Trump have done on Jan. 6, 2021 if he had possessed then the kind of control over local law enforcement that he seeks to acquire today?
But it raises a much darker question:
What would Trump have done on Jan. 6, 2021 if he had possessed then the kind of control over local law enforcement that he seeks to acquire today?
August 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Every day, I am thinking about what this means for 2028.
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“The root hypocrisy of fascism is that it brings to power supermen…whose unceasing message is that they are threatened by anything and everything…The media, by and large, treats this kind of rough manly pants-pissing with helicopter-parenting levels of concern.”
www.truthdig.com/articles/whi...
www.truthdig.com/articles/whi...
Which Way, Western Wuss? - Truthdig
Hail, our self-proclaimed supermen, who feel threatened by anything and everything.
www.truthdig.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“The root hypocrisy of fascism is that it brings to power supermen…whose unceasing message is that they are threatened by anything and everything…The media, by and large, treats this kind of rough manly pants-pissing with helicopter-parenting levels of concern.”
www.truthdig.com/articles/whi...
www.truthdig.com/articles/whi...
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MAGA is entirely sadistic dads and the people emotionally damaged by sadistic dads.
"And she usually stops crying, because she's so scared"
That's something a father just said about his child, with a little chuckle in his voice.
I didn't think my opinion of this blowdried asskiss could drop any lower, but there we are.
That's something a father just said about his child, with a little chuckle in his voice.
I didn't think my opinion of this blowdried asskiss could drop any lower, but there we are.
Jesse Watters terrorizes his toddler-aged daughter with fake stories about a neighbor with a dog that bites. This is a child he had with his former producer at Fox - the woman he let the air out of her tires so she would go out with him. Father of the year.
August 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
MAGA is entirely sadistic dads and the people emotionally damaged by sadistic dads.
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If someone in your life is a teacher or school support staff, make sure they have this new resource from @unitedwedream.org, @nilc.org, @aft.org on how they can create a safe and supportive environment for all their students. It’s so good.
Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff
This guide was created for educators, school support staff and service providers who teach, mentor and help open the doors of opportunity for immigrant students and families. Educators, school support...
unitedwedream.org
August 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If someone in your life is a teacher or school support staff, make sure they have this new resource from @unitedwedream.org, @nilc.org, @aft.org on how they can create a safe and supportive environment for all their students. It’s so good.
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TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle
What'd you do over the weekend? Public Works began resurfacing the street in front of the Chipotle where Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense
July 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle
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I went with the top five. They're bad! badfaithtimes.com/republicans-...
July 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I went with the top five. They're bad! badfaithtimes.com/republicans-...
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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
June 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.