LauraEmilyPDX (she, her, hers)
@lauraemilypdx.bsky.social
"like if school and news had a baby"
Born English teacher who edits policy research papers. Obsessed with language, social justice, and cats. Portland, Oregon. Heading to Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Same handle on Spoutible, IG, Threads, Xwitter.
Born English teacher who edits policy research papers. Obsessed with language, social justice, and cats. Portland, Oregon. Heading to Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Same handle on Spoutible, IG, Threads, Xwitter.
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
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The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
October 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
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#ResistanceRoots
“Sometimes it seems like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.”
— Fannie Lou Hamer
“Sometimes it seems like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.”
— Fannie Lou Hamer
October 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
#ResistanceRoots
“Sometimes it seems like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.”
— Fannie Lou Hamer
“Sometimes it seems like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.”
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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Portland never stops being Portland.
October 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Portland never stops being Portland.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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Read the Martin Niemöller poem.
We are living it.
We are living it.
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Read the Martin Niemöller poem.
We are living it.
We are living it.
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“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
#BookSky
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
#BookSky
October 2, 2025 at 1:16 AM
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
#BookSky
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
#BookSky
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This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.
Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator
Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator
October 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.
Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator
Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator
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what most people want at this moment is a fix for fascism that keeps the tone and power imbalances in tact and that's not gonna work
October 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
what most people want at this moment is a fix for fascism that keeps the tone and power imbalances in tact and that's not gonna work
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We are watching it in real time!
October 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
We are watching it in real time!
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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ARREST MY ENEMIES, MAKE SINKS COST MORE, NO MORE WINDMILLS, BRING ME MY GENERALS, GOLF GOLF GOLF, BLOW UP SOME BOATS, ARE DONKEYS REAL OR MADE UP, COUCHES ARE TOO CHEAP, ESCALATORS ARE SCAR
September 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
ARREST MY ENEMIES, MAKE SINKS COST MORE, NO MORE WINDMILLS, BRING ME MY GENERALS, GOLF GOLF GOLF, BLOW UP SOME BOATS, ARE DONKEYS REAL OR MADE UP, COUCHES ARE TOO CHEAP, ESCALATORS ARE SCAR
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Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
September 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
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#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous & FL Surgeon General Joseph "Quack" Ladapo, after announcing end of vaccine mandates, dodge questions about whether they or THEIR kids get vaccinated. floridapolitics.com/archives/757...
Gov. DeSantis, Joe Ladapo dodge ‘silly’ questions about vaccinating selves, family
'Some of the questions are just so funny.'
floridapolitics.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous & FL Surgeon General Joseph "Quack" Ladapo, after announcing end of vaccine mandates, dodge questions about whether they or THEIR kids get vaccinated. floridapolitics.com/archives/757...
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Prepare yourself for the most epic ROAST you’ve probably seen in a long time. AOC BURNS RFK Jr so badly, I’m amazed he doesn’t have smoke coming out of his ass.🔥🏆🥊😆
Part 1 of 2
Part 1 of 2
June 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Prepare yourself for the most epic ROAST you’ve probably seen in a long time. AOC BURNS RFK Jr so badly, I’m amazed he doesn’t have smoke coming out of his ass.🔥🏆🥊😆
Part 1 of 2
Part 1 of 2
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Police can question you and — even if you say nothing — they're allowed to testify about your "demeanor" and "body language" during questioning.
Most judges will allow this as a form of expert testimony.
That's why STFU is not enough. You need to explicitly say "I invoke my 5th amendment rights"
Most judges will allow this as a form of expert testimony.
That's why STFU is not enough. You need to explicitly say "I invoke my 5th amendment rights"
May 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Police can question you and — even if you say nothing — they're allowed to testify about your "demeanor" and "body language" during questioning.
Most judges will allow this as a form of expert testimony.
That's why STFU is not enough. You need to explicitly say "I invoke my 5th amendment rights"
Most judges will allow this as a form of expert testimony.
That's why STFU is not enough. You need to explicitly say "I invoke my 5th amendment rights"
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If all he had to do was sign a piece of paper, why didn’t he do it nine years ago?
May 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
If all he had to do was sign a piece of paper, why didn’t he do it nine years ago?
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How about some basic rules?
--All law enforcement officers should wear identification
--No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks
--All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams
...oh and...
--All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law
--All law enforcement officers should wear identification
--No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks
--All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams
...oh and...
--All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law
May 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
How about some basic rules?
--All law enforcement officers should wear identification
--No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks
--All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams
...oh and...
--All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law
--All law enforcement officers should wear identification
--No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks
--All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams
...oh and...
--All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law
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The rule is simple: if opposition requires bravery, then it’s not a democracy. Period.
May 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The rule is simple: if opposition requires bravery, then it’s not a democracy. Period.
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