Marisa Lykins
@marisalykins.bsky.social
Living in East Tennessee - love my family and friends, travel, chasing justice and seeking shalom
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I firmly stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦
February 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I firmly stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦
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So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”?
But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?
Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.
But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?
Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.
February 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”?
But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?
Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.
But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"?
Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.
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This news truly breaks my heart.
We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line!
abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...
We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line!
abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...
Measles death of unvaccinated child in Texas outbreak is 1st fatality in US in a decade
An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first associated with an outbreak that has infected more than 100 people.
abcnews.go.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This news truly breaks my heart.
We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line!
abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...
We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line!
abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...
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Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
Need a short to the point succinct response?
#soyouvotedfortrump
#soyouvotedfortrump
February 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Need a short to the point succinct response?
#soyouvotedfortrump
#soyouvotedfortrump
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If you’ve already started calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, you should have no trouble with someone’s preferred name and pronouns.
February 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
If you’ve already started calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, you should have no trouble with someone’s preferred name and pronouns.
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Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.
www.newyorker.com
February 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick
Hegseth at NATO summit: "We can talk all we want about values. Values are important. But you can't shoot values."
February 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick
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...they're eating the protections for the people who live there.
February 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
...they're eating the protections for the people who live there.
There’s always a pattern, a thread, bread crumbs… and they all lead to deepening and filling the current administrations pockets and those of their most loyal oligarchs
Trump is reportedly looking to shrink the FDIC and consolidate it into other govt agencies.
The FDIC was created during the Depression to protect bank deposits.
This would come after Trump and DOGE shuttered the CFPB, which protects us from financial fraud.
See the pattern?
The FDIC was created during the Depression to protect bank deposits.
This would come after Trump and DOGE shuttered the CFPB, which protects us from financial fraud.
See the pattern?
February 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
There’s always a pattern, a thread, bread crumbs… and they all lead to deepening and filling the current administrations pockets and those of their most loyal oligarchs
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No, contrary to the t-shirts and memes, Love will not win on its own simply because.
Courageous, empathetic, pissed-off people armed with sacrificial love, fully participating in the political process and engaging the broken systems around them, will win.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/stop-sayin...
Courageous, empathetic, pissed-off people armed with sacrificial love, fully participating in the political process and engaging the broken systems around them, will win.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/stop-sayin...
Stop Saying Love Wins
Love's victory is not inevitable. We have to fight for it.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
No, contrary to the t-shirts and memes, Love will not win on its own simply because.
Courageous, empathetic, pissed-off people armed with sacrificial love, fully participating in the political process and engaging the broken systems around them, will win.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/stop-sayin...
Courageous, empathetic, pissed-off people armed with sacrificial love, fully participating in the political process and engaging the broken systems around them, will win.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/stop-sayin...
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Trump & Musk are trying to fire 100,000+ civil servants right now - including over 1,000 VA employees.
Purges are happening at SBA, Energy, Education & more.
Firing this many critical employees at once could make it impossible for our government to provide BASIC services.
Purges are happening at SBA, Energy, Education & more.
Firing this many critical employees at once could make it impossible for our government to provide BASIC services.
February 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Trump & Musk are trying to fire 100,000+ civil servants right now - including over 1,000 VA employees.
Purges are happening at SBA, Energy, Education & more.
Firing this many critical employees at once could make it impossible for our government to provide BASIC services.
Purges are happening at SBA, Energy, Education & more.
Firing this many critical employees at once could make it impossible for our government to provide BASIC services.
Cause not enough of them do their own research or are willing to stand up to the b*llshit swirling around them.
They’re just shocked after the fact?!
They’re just shocked after the fact?!
GOP Senator Roger Wicker on Pete Hegseth’s NATO speech:
“I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool.” Wicker (who voted to confirm Hegseth) told Politico, adding that he was “puzzled” and “disturbed” by Hegseth’s comments.
“I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool.” Wicker (who voted to confirm Hegseth) told Politico, adding that he was “puzzled” and “disturbed” by Hegseth’s comments.
February 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Cause not enough of them do their own research or are willing to stand up to the b*llshit swirling around them.
They’re just shocked after the fact?!
They’re just shocked after the fact?!
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Yes think about how judges are supposed to decide if things the president does are constitutional, and why the richest man in the world who just bought the election might not be into that.
February 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Yes think about how judges are supposed to decide if things the president does are constitutional, and why the richest man in the world who just bought the election might not be into that.
Most of the GOP are just a** holes, plain and simple
I come from the right. It’s the cruelty. For the right, the cruelty is the point. The cruelty sells.
February 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Most of the GOP are just a** holes, plain and simple
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Ooo this is a good one ☺️
February 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Ooo this is a good one ☺️
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They suck equally hard.
February 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
They suck equally hard.
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I can’t believe this needs to be said, but cutting funding for cancer research is not how you make America great.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
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NIH cuts billions from research overhead funding
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday made a significant reduction in grants reserved for research institutions, a decision that may significantly impact American higher education. The …
thehill.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I can’t believe this needs to be said, but cutting funding for cancer research is not how you make America great.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com/policy/healt...
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Cheney to Vance: “You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you’re losing. That’s tyranny.”
February 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Cheney to Vance: “You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you’re losing. That’s tyranny.”
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Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.
February 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.
Congrats again to Tennesseans who voted for Trump and the majority of other local GOP boot lickers - you’ve screwed us again. And yes, it seems like it’s something else every single day because, well, it IS something else…
Every 👏🏼 Single 👏🏼 Day 👏🏼
Every 👏🏼 Single 👏🏼 Day 👏🏼
“A dark day… today we all lose….”
Shuttering U.S.A.I.D. is impacting the soybean industry — Tennessee’s #1 cash crop, contributing billions to our economy.
More: arec.tennessee.edu/wp-content/u...
Shuttering U.S.A.I.D. is impacting the soybean industry — Tennessee’s #1 cash crop, contributing billions to our economy.
More: arec.tennessee.edu/wp-content/u...
February 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Congrats again to Tennesseans who voted for Trump and the majority of other local GOP boot lickers - you’ve screwed us again. And yes, it seems like it’s something else every single day because, well, it IS something else…
Every 👏🏼 Single 👏🏼 Day 👏🏼
Every 👏🏼 Single 👏🏼 Day 👏🏼
No sh*t Sherlock Musk, you get away with everything
Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years
2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0
Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years
February 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
No sh*t Sherlock Musk, you get away with everything
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Do I have this right? Elon Musk - the guy in charge of preventing wasteful spending - dropped $40M on a Super Bowl ad?
We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.
We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.
February 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Do I have this right? Elon Musk - the guy in charge of preventing wasteful spending - dropped $40M on a Super Bowl ad?
We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.
We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.