@susanlowry1.bsky.social
Community organizer in my youth with service and domestic workers, then union lawyer in entertainment industry.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The Trump Admin will fire you for having a Pride flag on your desk but downplays & normalizes swastikas & nooses?
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The Trump Admin will fire you for having a Pride flag on your desk but downplays & normalizes swastikas & nooses?
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
I guess they couldn't find any witches.
US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say
U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I guess they couldn't find any witches.
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Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.
"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice
Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.
www.lawdork.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.
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KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.
Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests take Santa Ana father after repeatedly hitting him
In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests are seen violently detaining a Santa Ana father before forcing him into…
ktla.com
June 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.
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My relatives in East L.A. — born in the U.S.A. — are afraid to go outside because masked men with guns are randomly snatching people off the street.
This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.
This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.
June 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My relatives in East L.A. — born in the U.S.A. — are afraid to go outside because masked men with guns are randomly snatching people off the street.
This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.
This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.
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Canada’s wildfire crisis is displacing First Nations at alarming rates.
With over 40,000 people evacuated and infrastructure overwhelmed, Indigenous leaders say climate change is hitting their homelands hardest.
grist.org/global-indig...
#Indigenous #Wildfires #Fire #Tribes #Canada #Environment
With over 40,000 people evacuated and infrastructure overwhelmed, Indigenous leaders say climate change is hitting their homelands hardest.
grist.org/global-indig...
#Indigenous #Wildfires #Fire #Tribes #Canada #Environment
Canada’s wildfire crisis is displacing First Nations at alarming rates
With over 40,000 people evacuated and infrastructure overwhelmed, Indigenous leaders say climate change is hitting their homelands hardest.
grist.org
June 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Canada’s wildfire crisis is displacing First Nations at alarming rates.
With over 40,000 people evacuated and infrastructure overwhelmed, Indigenous leaders say climate change is hitting their homelands hardest.
grist.org/global-indig...
#Indigenous #Wildfires #Fire #Tribes #Canada #Environment
With over 40,000 people evacuated and infrastructure overwhelmed, Indigenous leaders say climate change is hitting their homelands hardest.
grist.org/global-indig...
#Indigenous #Wildfires #Fire #Tribes #Canada #Environment
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Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.
ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
June 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.
ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
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“Thank you to life, that has given me so much
It has given me laughter and it has given me crying
So I can distinguish blessings from brokenness
The two ingredients that make up my chants
And your chants, that are the same chants
And everyone's chants, that are my own chants”
It has given me laughter and it has given me crying
So I can distinguish blessings from brokenness
The two ingredients that make up my chants
And your chants, that are the same chants
And everyone's chants, that are my own chants”
"Gracias a la vida" Mercedes Sosa & Joan Baez www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMuT... #music
Joan Baez & Mercedes Sosa "Gracias A La Vida"
YouTube video by ROXYTOM
www.youtube.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:07 AM
“Thank you to life, that has given me so much
It has given me laughter and it has given me crying
So I can distinguish blessings from brokenness
The two ingredients that make up my chants
And your chants, that are the same chants
And everyone's chants, that are my own chants”
It has given me laughter and it has given me crying
So I can distinguish blessings from brokenness
The two ingredients that make up my chants
And your chants, that are the same chants
And everyone's chants, that are my own chants”
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500 rallying for getting ICE out of Pico Rivera tonight.
June 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
500 rallying for getting ICE out of Pico Rivera tonight.
Historic.
FULL FLOOR SPEECH: Sen. Padilla BLASTS "tyrant" Trump
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtube.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Historic.
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When our leaders abandon their duty.
When the media turn away.
When international NGOs and doctors are murdered for trying to help,
then it falls to ordinary people to step up.
My latest on the growing movement of grandmothers against genocide.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/grandmothe...
When the media turn away.
When international NGOs and doctors are murdered for trying to help,
then it falls to ordinary people to step up.
My latest on the growing movement of grandmothers against genocide.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/grandmothe...
Grandmothers Are On The Move
"To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn't care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet."
charlieangus.substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
When our leaders abandon their duty.
When the media turn away.
When international NGOs and doctors are murdered for trying to help,
then it falls to ordinary people to step up.
My latest on the growing movement of grandmothers against genocide.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/grandmothe...
When the media turn away.
When international NGOs and doctors are murdered for trying to help,
then it falls to ordinary people to step up.
My latest on the growing movement of grandmothers against genocide.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/grandmothe...
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Thank you Senator Wiener!
We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info.
The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵
The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵
June 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thank you Senator Wiener!
US CDC official in charge of COVID, RSV data resigns ahead of vaccine meeting - www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US CDC official in charge of COVID, RSV data resigns ahead of vaccine meeting
A U.S. government scientist who oversees the team responsible for collecting data on COVID-19 and RSV hospitalizations used to shape national vaccine policy has resigned, citing concerns over how such data would be used by the Trump administration.
www.reuters.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
US CDC official in charge of COVID, RSV data resigns ahead of vaccine meeting - www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Very glad to see this
BREAKING: The American Bar Association has sued the Trump administration on behalf of its members to put an end to Donald Trump's law firm intimidation project, calling Trump's efforts "unprecedented and uniquely dangerous to the rule of law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
June 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Very glad to see this
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This is super cool from the NWSL team Angel City FC, which is based in LA. They distributed these tshirts at last night’s game.
June 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is super cool from the NWSL team Angel City FC, which is based in LA. They distributed these tshirts at last night’s game.
What in the hell
Florida Supreme Court orders Florida Bar to end affiliation with American Bar Association (ABA). Commanded via letter from Chief Justice, no formal order, no opportunity for public or Bar members to comment.
June 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
What in the hell
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um what? sounds like more than a stern warning www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/u...
‘We will kill you’: Florida sheriff issues stern warning to protesters | CNN
As protests over the Trump administration’s immigration raids continue in Los Angeles and other cities, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and law enforcement officials warned that demonstrators ...
www.cnn.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
um what? sounds like more than a stern warning www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/u...
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[alanis morissette voice] it's like raaa-ee-aaaaaain / on your military parade
How thunderstorms could disrupt Army parade in D.C.
Lightning could pose a danger for the large crowds expected Saturday on the National Mall.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
[alanis morissette voice] it's like raaa-ee-aaaaaain / on your military parade
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Padilla getting cuffed is the second biggest post on the Andor Subreddit.
www.reddit.com/r/andor/comm...
www.reddit.com/r/andor/comm...
From the andor community on Reddit: An image of a sitting US senator being handcuffed by federal agents, and a scene from Andor I thought of for no reason at all
Explore this post and more from the andor community
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June 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Padilla getting cuffed is the second biggest post on the Andor Subreddit.
www.reddit.com/r/andor/comm...
www.reddit.com/r/andor/comm...
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FIRST ON MSNBC: Sen. Padilla reveals meeting DHS Secretary Kristi Noem after being forcibly removed and cuffed from her DHS press conference.
"You'd think she might have started the meeting with an apology for what happened. Of course not."
"You'd think she might have started the meeting with an apology for what happened. Of course not."
June 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
FIRST ON MSNBC: Sen. Padilla reveals meeting DHS Secretary Kristi Noem after being forcibly removed and cuffed from her DHS press conference.
"You'd think she might have started the meeting with an apology for what happened. Of course not."
"You'd think she might have started the meeting with an apology for what happened. Of course not."
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"How could you say that you did not know who he was?"
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass speaks out on the forced removal of California Sen. Alex Padilla from a DHS press conference.
DHS claimed the senator "interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself."
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass speaks out on the forced removal of California Sen. Alex Padilla from a DHS press conference.
DHS claimed the senator "interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself."
June 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"How could you say that you did not know who he was?"
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass speaks out on the forced removal of California Sen. Alex Padilla from a DHS press conference.
DHS claimed the senator "interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself."
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass speaks out on the forced removal of California Sen. Alex Padilla from a DHS press conference.
DHS claimed the senator "interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself."
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Booker: He was made to kneel before the authority of the executive… They treated a member of the United States senate violently after he identified himself, dragged him out of a room, threw him upon the ground, and put him in handcuffs
June 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Booker: He was made to kneel before the authority of the executive… They treated a member of the United States senate violently after he identified himself, dragged him out of a room, threw him upon the ground, and put him in handcuffs