Lauren K-M, MEd
@laurabets.bsky.social
🇺🇸 Expat in 🇮🇪 | Grants Professional | Funding the resistance 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | Better at social justice than social media | Probably friends with your mom
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you don’t have to explain gay to kids if you don’t teach them first that heterosexuality is the only way.
August 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
you don’t have to explain gay to kids if you don’t teach them first that heterosexuality is the only way.
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WATCH: Texas Rep. Collier says the high road has crumbled
August 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
WATCH: Texas Rep. Collier says the high road has crumbled
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The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
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Same-sex marriages have zero effect on religious extremists.
A same-sex married couple doesn't prevent your relationship with God or with Christ or your fidelity to Christ's teachings.
So, I'm left concluding that your faith in God is very fragile and weak in the first place.
A same-sex married couple doesn't prevent your relationship with God or with Christ or your fidelity to Christ's teachings.
So, I'm left concluding that your faith in God is very fragile and weak in the first place.
August 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Same-sex marriages have zero effect on religious extremists.
A same-sex married couple doesn't prevent your relationship with God or with Christ or your fidelity to Christ's teachings.
So, I'm left concluding that your faith in God is very fragile and weak in the first place.
A same-sex married couple doesn't prevent your relationship with God or with Christ or your fidelity to Christ's teachings.
So, I'm left concluding that your faith in God is very fragile and weak in the first place.
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ITV: “This landscape of destruction looks other-worldly, but it’s not.”
A view of Gaza from above shows the scale of what Israel has done, as they move to occupy Gaza amidst Palestinian starvation.
A view of Gaza from above shows the scale of what Israel has done, as they move to occupy Gaza amidst Palestinian starvation.
August 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
ITV: “This landscape of destruction looks other-worldly, but it’s not.”
A view of Gaza from above shows the scale of what Israel has done, as they move to occupy Gaza amidst Palestinian starvation.
A view of Gaza from above shows the scale of what Israel has done, as they move to occupy Gaza amidst Palestinian starvation.
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american media be like "this horrible shooting, which was not stopped nor even mitigated by the cops, means we need to give the cops even more money, power, & impunity"
August 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
american media be like "this horrible shooting, which was not stopped nor even mitigated by the cops, means we need to give the cops even more money, power, & impunity"
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This whole "Let's use computers to do everything badly in the most expensive and unethical possible way" thing is really testing me.
July 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This whole "Let's use computers to do everything badly in the most expensive and unethical possible way" thing is really testing me.
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The LGBTQIAs
The Political Dissidents
Activists
Journalists
Scientists
Investigative Reporters
People Who Disagree
Etc...
The Political Dissidents
Activists
Journalists
Scientists
Investigative Reporters
People Who Disagree
Etc...
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Will. Move. On. To. The. Next. Group. He. Hates.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants.
It. Will. Move. On. To. The. Next. Group. He. Hates.
July 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The LGBTQIAs
The Political Dissidents
Activists
Journalists
Scientists
Investigative Reporters
People Who Disagree
Etc...
The Political Dissidents
Activists
Journalists
Scientists
Investigative Reporters
People Who Disagree
Etc...
I promise the lazy people on Medicaid do not constitute the majority and are not the reason our systems are failing. Look to the greedy leadership, look to failures and crooks like Senator Rick Scott.
You are boring me Jason. I don’t care if lazy people are on Medicaid. I don’t. It’s not a crime. It’s none of my business. It isn’t happening. And also lazy people run this country so if we are going to eradicate laziness start at the top and then micromanage yourself.
What you said was very disingenuous. There is no enslavement and you know it. If you want to be on Medicaid and you are able bodied then work for it. Has nothing to do with being poor. It has to do with being lazy and not wanting to work
July 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I promise the lazy people on Medicaid do not constitute the majority and are not the reason our systems are failing. Look to the greedy leadership, look to failures and crooks like Senator Rick Scott.
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Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”
July 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”
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This is an excellent piece from Dr. Marcie Bianco thoroughly dismantling Andrew Sullivan's bullshit op-ed in NYT. Highly recommend it.
@marciebianco.bsky.social
@marciebianco.bsky.social
Andrew Sullivan represents everything wrong with the gay rights movement
Cultural critic Marcie Bianco excavates Sullivan's anti-trans, anti-left assertions in The New York Times that people are being forced to transition to erase gay people and that the Progress Flag excl...
www.advocate.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is an excellent piece from Dr. Marcie Bianco thoroughly dismantling Andrew Sullivan's bullshit op-ed in NYT. Highly recommend it.
@marciebianco.bsky.social
@marciebianco.bsky.social
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Twelve million Americans may lose their health care because Republicans want the wealthiest people in our country to be a fraction of a fraction wealthier than they are now.
June 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Twelve million Americans may lose their health care because Republicans want the wealthiest people in our country to be a fraction of a fraction wealthier than they are now.
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If it wasn't already clear to folks that same-sex marriage is in trouble with this Supreme Court, I hope the past week has driven that point home.
June 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If it wasn't already clear to folks that same-sex marriage is in trouble with this Supreme Court, I hope the past week has driven that point home.
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So odd that Congress is so willing to have their power usurped and stripped from them.
June 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So odd that Congress is so willing to have their power usurped and stripped from them.
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Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
June 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
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It is bizarre the way people with guns, bulletproof vests, riot shields, tanks, and other military gear act like rocks are an equal threat. It’s madness! If you are scared of rocks and think the punishment for having them thrown at you should be death, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement!
June 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
It is bizarre the way people with guns, bulletproof vests, riot shields, tanks, and other military gear act like rocks are an equal threat. It’s madness! If you are scared of rocks and think the punishment for having them thrown at you should be death, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement!
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Wait, a society that championed rugged individualism has a loneliness epidemic? No kidding? That's so weird!
June 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Wait, a society that championed rugged individualism has a loneliness epidemic? No kidding? That's so weird!
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Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.
Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.
Our duty is to stand up to brutality.
Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.
Our duty is to stand up to brutality.
Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
June 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.
Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.
Our duty is to stand up to brutality.
Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.
Our duty is to stand up to brutality.
Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
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“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”
Doechii at the #BETAwards
Doechii at the #BETAwards
June 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”
Doechii at the #BETAwards
Doechii at the #BETAwards
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If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:
1-877-447-4487
1-877-447-4487
June 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:
1-877-447-4487
1-877-447-4487
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My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
June 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
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San Antonio police have walked back on a previous statement that there was no evidence of a hate crime in the killing of actor Jonathan Joss, with the police chief now calling the statement “premature.”
Police take back statement dismissing hate crime in gay actor’s killing
Jonathan Joss, who acted in “King of the Hill” and “Parks and Recreation,” was shot in San Antonio by a man who yelled “homophobic slurs” at him, his husband said.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
San Antonio police have walked back on a previous statement that there was no evidence of a hate crime in the killing of actor Jonathan Joss, with the police chief now calling the statement “premature.”