@leighellen.bsky.social
A year old article, but still highly relevant. www.npr.org/sections/pla...
A Nobel Prize for an explanation of why nations fail
A trio of economists just won a Nobel Prize for their insights into how democratic and other inclusive institutions are critical for a nation's prosperity.
www.npr.org
October 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
A year old article, but still highly relevant. www.npr.org/sections/pla...
An un-administration chock-full of petty, grotesquely selfish people who are tragically, completely disconnected from nature, reality, and love.
The cuts are part of a broader effort by Trump to slash any spending from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act signed by former President Biden.
What a petty human.
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
What a petty human.
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
The US Department of Transportation began earlier this month to rescind federal funding for local projects across the country to improve street safety and add pedestrian trails and bike lanes, because they were deemed "hostile" to cars.
September 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
An un-administration chock-full of petty, grotesquely selfish people who are tragically, completely disconnected from nature, reality, and love.
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June 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Looking back on the protests today made me think, MAGA never protested Biden because he wasn’t stealing their rights.
Trump is gutting lives, freedoms, futures. We’re in the streets because we’re being crushed, erased & we're pissed off!
MAGA rallies around a man. We rally around values
Trump is gutting lives, freedoms, futures. We’re in the streets because we’re being crushed, erased & we're pissed off!
MAGA rallies around a man. We rally around values
June 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Looking back on the protests today made me think, MAGA never protested Biden because he wasn’t stealing their rights.
Trump is gutting lives, freedoms, futures. We’re in the streets because we’re being crushed, erased & we're pissed off!
MAGA rallies around a man. We rally around values
Trump is gutting lives, freedoms, futures. We’re in the streets because we’re being crushed, erased & we're pissed off!
MAGA rallies around a man. We rally around values
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Two lawmakers chose to serve their state. Today, they were met with violence. Minnesota Rep. Hortman and her husband were killed. Sen. Hoffman and his wife are in critical condition.
We reject political violence in all forms—we stand for a democracy where peaceful disagreement is our strength.
We reject political violence in all forms—we stand for a democracy where peaceful disagreement is our strength.
June 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Two lawmakers chose to serve their state. Today, they were met with violence. Minnesota Rep. Hortman and her husband were killed. Sen. Hoffman and his wife are in critical condition.
We reject political violence in all forms—we stand for a democracy where peaceful disagreement is our strength.
We reject political violence in all forms—we stand for a democracy where peaceful disagreement is our strength.
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS! TUCSON AZ” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS! TUCSON AZ · No Kings
🚨**On Saturday, June 14, join us in Tucson, AZ as we flood the streets with our MOTOR MARCH! Beat the heat with us and protest from your car. Or if you prefer to cheer on from the sidewalk, see the ma...
www.mobilize.us
June 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS! TUCSON AZ” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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I would rather my taxes go to lifting all people up who need help rather than endless wars. People are way more important than anything else. Give them opportunities, possibility, and every chance to succeed that they need.
June 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I would rather my taxes go to lifting all people up who need help rather than endless wars. People are way more important than anything else. Give them opportunities, possibility, and every chance to succeed that they need.
💯!!!!!!!! 🎯
Those who oppose healthcare for the entire country of people need
to remember that it costs Americans nothing for everyone to be covered. Immigrants pay a higher percent in taxes than billionaires
while they work here.
to remember that it costs Americans nothing for everyone to be covered. Immigrants pay a higher percent in taxes than billionaires
while they work here.
June 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
💯!!!!!!!! 🎯
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"Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me". Matthews 25:40
June 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me". Matthews 25:40
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If 102-year-old Kurt Goldschmidt, a survivor of the Holocaust, says "no kings" you'd best get up and stand up for your rights before it's too late. Mr. Goldschmidt knows all too well what he's seeing in Trump's America. It was an honor to stand with him today. #NoKingsInAmerica
June 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If 102-year-old Kurt Goldschmidt, a survivor of the Holocaust, says "no kings" you'd best get up and stand up for your rights before it's too late. Mr. Goldschmidt knows all too well what he's seeing in Trump's America. It was an honor to stand with him today. #NoKingsInAmerica
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White supremacist & Proud Boys leader showed up in Miami to provoke #NoKings rallygoers—threatening to “personally deport migrants.”
DO NOT engage. Document from a distance. Don’t give hate oxygen.
We move forward, not backward. Away from militias.
Toward justice.
We rise. Peacefully.
DO NOT engage. Document from a distance. Don’t give hate oxygen.
We move forward, not backward. Away from militias.
Toward justice.
We rise. Peacefully.
June 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
White supremacist & Proud Boys leader showed up in Miami to provoke #NoKings rallygoers—threatening to “personally deport migrants.”
DO NOT engage. Document from a distance. Don’t give hate oxygen.
We move forward, not backward. Away from militias.
Toward justice.
We rise. Peacefully.
DO NOT engage. Document from a distance. Don’t give hate oxygen.
We move forward, not backward. Away from militias.
Toward justice.
We rise. Peacefully.
💗🇺🇸💗🌟
“Here we are, Mr. Trump. While you’re trying to destroy 🇺🇸, we’re trying to build it up.”
June 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
💗🇺🇸💗🌟
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OK. I’ll admit it. I am obsessed with lamuertemaria (IG).
We all come here with a dream—just like Dr. King said, “I have a dream.”
No matter where we come from, we carry that same fire inside us.
A dream to live free, to be seen, to belong.
#ArtAsActivism #NoKings
We all come here with a dream—just like Dr. King said, “I have a dream.”
No matter where we come from, we carry that same fire inside us.
A dream to live free, to be seen, to belong.
#ArtAsActivism #NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
OK. I’ll admit it. I am obsessed with lamuertemaria (IG).
We all come here with a dream—just like Dr. King said, “I have a dream.”
No matter where we come from, we carry that same fire inside us.
A dream to live free, to be seen, to belong.
#ArtAsActivism #NoKings
We all come here with a dream—just like Dr. King said, “I have a dream.”
No matter where we come from, we carry that same fire inside us.
A dream to live free, to be seen, to belong.
#ArtAsActivism #NoKings
That’s the truth!!
Let’s be honest - this one should be about white people getting out there and pulling their weight. Everyone else will be targeted. Step up.
June 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
That’s the truth!!
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More of this, please!
Meet MAGA GOP cruelty with music, humor and love.
Also, fuck MAGA.
Meet MAGA GOP cruelty with music, humor and love.
Also, fuck MAGA.
June 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
More of this, please!
Meet MAGA GOP cruelty with music, humor and love.
Also, fuck MAGA.
Meet MAGA GOP cruelty with music, humor and love.
Also, fuck MAGA.
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Joy is definitely a form of resistance!
June 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Joy is definitely a form of resistance!
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And the rest from first people.
June 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
And the rest from first people.
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I mean half our country was literally stolen from Mexico.
June 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I mean half our country was literally stolen from Mexico.
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If you’re undocumented, don’t march tomorrow. Stay home. Let the rest of us get this one.
Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
June 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
If you’re undocumented, don’t march tomorrow. Stay home. Let the rest of us get this one.
Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
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KKK BARBIE
NOT ONLY INCOMPETENT
VILE, EVIL, AND CRUEL
STOP ICE NOW
NOT ONLY INCOMPETENT
VILE, EVIL, AND CRUEL
STOP ICE NOW
June 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
KKK BARBIE
NOT ONLY INCOMPETENT
VILE, EVIL, AND CRUEL
STOP ICE NOW
NOT ONLY INCOMPETENT
VILE, EVIL, AND CRUEL
STOP ICE NOW
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It's not a distraction, it's another step towards the imposition of a police state and the creation of an authoritarian/fascist government. Don't minimize this by calling it a "distraction;" it's much more serious than that and we can't lose sight of that fact. Trump wants power, no matter the cost.
June 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It's not a distraction, it's another step towards the imposition of a police state and the creation of an authoritarian/fascist government. Don't minimize this by calling it a "distraction;" it's much more serious than that and we can't lose sight of that fact. Trump wants power, no matter the cost.
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We know what democracy looks like.
This is what dictatorship looks like.
The violent handcuffing of a United States senator, without cause.
Call this regime a coup, or domestic terrorism, dictatorship — it isn’t our democracy, and we can’t let it continue.
#NoKings No dictators. No Trump.
This is what dictatorship looks like.
The violent handcuffing of a United States senator, without cause.
Call this regime a coup, or domestic terrorism, dictatorship — it isn’t our democracy, and we can’t let it continue.
#NoKings No dictators. No Trump.
Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
June 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
We know what democracy looks like.
This is what dictatorship looks like.
The violent handcuffing of a United States senator, without cause.
Call this regime a coup, or domestic terrorism, dictatorship — it isn’t our democracy, and we can’t let it continue.
#NoKings No dictators. No Trump.
This is what dictatorship looks like.
The violent handcuffing of a United States senator, without cause.
Call this regime a coup, or domestic terrorism, dictatorship — it isn’t our democracy, and we can’t let it continue.
#NoKings No dictators. No Trump.
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I can't help but point out that 1. nothing in Miller's "mandate" requires those arrested to be guilty of any law or immigration violation, and 2. Miller has exactly ZERO legal authority to issue ANY such mandate.
June 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I can't help but point out that 1. nothing in Miller's "mandate" requires those arrested to be guilty of any law or immigration violation, and 2. Miller has exactly ZERO legal authority to issue ANY such mandate.