lafourchette
LightNews LightNews
banner
lafourchette.bsky.social
lafourchette
@lafourchette.bsky.social
610 followers 650 following 3K posts
Psychotherapist. Plays with art and music. « Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? » – Mary Oliver (Avatar: Fornasetti)
Posts Replies Media Videos
lafourchette.bsky.social
Attention San Diego peeps!

9477 Waples St., Ste. 100
San Diego, CA 92121

info@feedingsandiego.org
Free food distribution Saturday November 8, Feeding San Diego, 10a - 12p. Registration not required and everyone is welcome. Recipients will receive 7 - 8 grocery items and 16 lbs of produce. Walk-up distribution. Please bring your own bags/carts/wagons.
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
i thought i’d seen that dead look before:
a photo of trump with putin in helsinki
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
lafourchette.bsky.social
A bear hugging the state of California.
November 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
lafourchette.bsky.social
🙌🏻
California peeps, let’s go! Vote YES on Prop50
San Diego County sticker showing “I voted”
October 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
Military officer in attendance, facial expression registering shame?
September 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
And this:
September 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
Is anyone surprised that Patel will make stuff up? 🙄
September 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
image.stern.de/34514536/t/k...
Iris Apfel ❤️ dressed in cream with black accents, an armful of bracelets, black statement glasses, and red lipstick.
September 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
lafourchette.bsky.social
uhhhh…yeah, no!

(would you trust that face?!)
A message from medicare with a photo of dr. oz smiling with the text: stay healthy with dr oz (insert eye roll emoji here)
August 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
🥱
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
Trump’s tv announcement for NG in DC as a result of crime is aired by MSNBC with a list of crime statistics showing a decrease in crime.
August 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
“It’s time for a change.”

Apparently we are now ignoring the first amendment.

From Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny:
July 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
Well alrighty then. CBS is easy to ignore.
A mouse waving goodbye. Caption: Fuck you. Next.
July 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
lafourchette.bsky.social
passed
July 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
@bcdreyer.social

fyi - just tried to purchase a t-shirt and this is what pops up at checkout:
Internal Server Error
July 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
2/2
Give people tools, not soundbites. We don’t need more slogans. We need survival manuals. ⸻ 5. Leverage international media and watchdogs. Stop hoping U.S. cable news will wake up. They’re too busy playing both sides of fascism. Feed the real stories to BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Reuters, Der Spiegel — hell, leak them to anonymous dropboxes if you have to. Make what’s happening in America a global scandal. And stop relying on platforms that are actively suppressing truth. Start leveraging Substack. Use Bluesky. That’s where the resistance is migrating. That’s where censorship hasn’t caught up. If the mainstream won’t carry the truth — outflank them. Get creative. Go underground. Go global. If our democracy is being dismantled in broad daylight, make sure the whole world sees it — and make sure we’re still able to say it. ⸻ 6. Create a digital safe haven for whistleblowers and defectors. Not everyone inside this regime is loyal. Some are scared. Some want out. Build the channels. Encrypted. Anonymous. Protected. Make it easy for the cracks in the system to become gaping holes. And while you’re at it? Stop ostracizing MAGA defectors. Everyone makes mistakes — even glaring, critical ones. We are not the bullies. We are not the ones filled with hate. And it is not your job to shame people who finally saw the fire and chose to step out of it. They will have to deal with that internal struggle — the guilt of putting a very dangerous and callous regime in power. But they’re already outnumbered. Don’t push them back into the crowd. We don’t need purity. We need numbers. We need people willing to burn their red hats and testify against the machine they helped build. ⸻ 7. Study the collapse—and the comeback. You should be learning from South Korea and how they managed their brief rule under dictatorship. They didn’t waste time chasing the one man with absolute immunity. They went after the structure. The aides. The enforcers. The loyalists. The architects. They knocked out the foundation one pillar at a time — until the “strongman” had no one left to stand on. And his power crumbled beneath him. You should be independently investigating every author of Project 2025, every aide who defies court orders, every communications director repeating lies, every policy writer enabling cruelty, every water boy who keeps this engine running. You can’t stop a regime by asking the king to sit down. You dismantle the throne he’s standing on — one coward at a time. ⸻ Stop being scared to fight dirty when the other side is fighting to erase the damn Constitution. They are threatening to disappear AMERICANS. A M E R I C A N S. And your biggest move can’t be another strongly worded email or BlueSky post. We want backbone. The backbone we saw from you during the impeachment hearings. We want action. We want to know you’ll stand up before we’re all ordered to sit down — permanently. We are watching. And I don’t just mean your base. I mean millions of us who see exactly what’s happening. I’m a tiny BlueSky account but I follow some huge accounts that makes my tiny ripple matter because sometimes when I speak, it echoes. But when we ALL speak, it ROARS with pressure that will cause change. We need to be deafening. You still have a chance to do something historic. To be remembered for courage, not caution. To go down as the party that didn’t just watch the fall — but fought the hell back with everything they had. But the clock is ticking. And the deportation buses are idling.
July 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
I appreciate Dems' efforts in Congress to delay the vote on this bill and to use the time/megaphone to educate voters on the impending impact. Good to see. But I want more. I did a light edit of Cheney's recent action steps for Dems and sent it to my senators, representative, and Chuck Schumer. 1/2
Dear Senator/Representative ________________, I appreciate the steps you have taken against Trump’s authoritarian agenda but I need more from you. Democrats in leadership postions are not powerless and my concern is growing as we’re watching fascism consolidate power in real time. I want to echo recent thoughts shared from Liz Cheney who is at least offering a solid plan of action - something Democrats have been lacking. This administration is not simply “a different ideology.” It is a coordinated, authoritarian machine — with the Supreme Court, the House, the Senate, and the executive pen all under its control. This is not a moment in history to be asking for decorum (and certainly not donations. WTF.) That won’t save us. I don’t want to hear another polite floor speech. I want strategy. I want fire. I want action so bold it shifts the damn news cycle — not fits inside one. The DNC seems to think asking for donations is a way to fight for democracy but all I see is democrats who benefited from those donations paralyzed in the face of the current slide. Those of us who donate don’t want to keep sending money just to watch you stand frozen as the Constitution goes up in flames — shaking your heads and saying: “Well, there’s not much we can do. He has the majority.” If you don’t know how to think outside the box… If you don’t know how to strategize… If you don’t know how to fight fire with fire… what the hell are we giving you money for? Some of us have two or three advanced degrees. Some of us have military training. Some of us know what coordinated resistance looks like — and this ain’t it. Yes, the tours around the country? Nice. The speeches? Nice. The clever congressional clapbacks? Nice. That was great for giving hope. Now we need action. You have to stop acting like this is a normal presidency that will just time out in four years or be corrected in the midterms. We’re not even at Day 90, and look at the chaos. Look at the disappearances. Look at the erosion of the judiciary, the press, and our rights. If you do not stop this, we will not make it 1,460 days. So here’s what I need from you — right now: ⸻ 1. Form an independent, civilian-powered investigative coalition. I’m talking experts. Veterans. Whistleblowers. Journalists. Watchdog orgs. Deputize the resistance. Build a real-time archive of corruption, overreach, and executive abuse. Make it public. Make it unshakable. Let the people drag the rot into the light. If you can’t hold formal hearings, hold public ones. If Congress won’t act, let the country act. This isn’t about optics — it’s about receipts. Because at some point, these people will be held accountable. And when that day comes, we’ll need every name, every signature, every illegal order, every act of silence—documented. You’re not just preserving truth — you’re preparing evidence for prosecution. The more they vanish people and weaponize data, the more we need truth in the sunlight. ⸻ 2. Join the International Criminal Court. Yes, I said it. Call their bluff. You cannot control what the other side does. But you can control your own integrity. So prove it. Prove that your party is still grounded in law, human rights, and ethical leadership. Join. If you’ve got nothing to hide — join. Show the world who’s hiding bodies, bribes, and buried bank accounts. Force the GOP to explain why they’d rather protect a war criminal than sign a treaty. And while you’re at it, publicly invite ICC observers into U.S. borders. Make this administration explain — on camera — why they’re terrified of international oversight. ⸻ 3. Fund state-level resistance infrastructure. Don’t just send postcards. Send resources. Channel DNC funds into rapid-response teams, legal defense coalitions, sanctuary networks, and digital security training. If the federal government is hijacked, build power underneath it. If the laws become tools of oppression, help people resist them legally, locally, and boldly. This is not campaign season — this is an authoritarian purge. . Act like this is the end of democracy, because it is. And you energetically warned about this during your campaign. I voted for you because of your fire. What happened?! We WILL REMEMBER the warriors come primaries. Fighting this regime should be your marketing strategy. And let’s be clear: The reason the other side always seems three steps ahead is because they ARE. They prepared for this. They infiltrated school boards, courts, local legislatures, and police unions. They built a machine while you wrote press releases. We’re reacting — they’ve been executing a plan for years. It’s time to shift from panic to blueprint. You should already be working with strategists and military minds on PROJECT 2029, a coordinated, long-term plan to rebuild this country when the smoke clears. You should be publicly laying out: • The laws and amendments you’ll pass to ensure this never happens again • The systems you’ll tear down and the safeguards you’ll enshrine • The plan to hold perpetrators of human atrocities accountable • The urgent commitment to immediately bring home those sold into slavery in El Salvador You say you’re the party of the people? Then show the people the plan. ⸻ 4. Use your platform to educate the public on rights and resistance tactics. If they’re going to strip us of rights and lie about it — arm the people with truth. Text campaigns. Mass trainings. Downloadable “Know Your Rights” kits. Multilingual legal guides. Encrypted phone trees. AOC did this and I still use her digital Know Your Rights images to give to people in my life at risk. That stuff works! It empowers us on the ground.
July 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
Heed Timothy Snyder’s well-informed insights. Always.
A list from Timothy Snyder. #1 on the list is: Many things reported with confidence in the first hours and days will turn out not to be true.
June 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
They liked his ‘book’.
He’s such a whack job.
June 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
I wish more people embraced this. Quite the missed opportunity from the start.
Quoted text: Adedokun, whose soul-driven set featured Prince covers and original songs, says testing and masking is basic consideration of others’ safety. “Even if you may not care about COVID and how it affects your body, many people still do,” she explains.
June 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
I see no evidence that Karni asked the reasonable follow-up: “what do you think your job as senator entails?”
May 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
This was one of several times.
May 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
lafourchette.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
Highlighted text of Tanden’s quote: « If you walk around saying ‘Donald Trump is an existential threat, and I’m gonna fight tooth and nail to stop him’ then people are gonna expect you to do that. It’s a little hard to understand that you’re at a rally saying ‘Donald Trump is an existential threat and I gotta do everything I can as a leader,’ and then two weeks later hand over your votes for a concurrent resolution on the budget. »
April 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
Trump knows bullies are weak cowards. He said so himself.
April 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
lafourchette.bsky.social
San Diego had this quack’s number years ago. His attempts to run his game made him a bit of a joke.
Clip from wikipedia noting that Navarro ran unsuccessfully for office in San Diego, California, five times.
April 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM