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@lmthorn.bsky.social

mother of a teen and young adult, concerned citizen, interested in everything, left-leaning for life, conflict-avoidant, committed introvert. Likes/follows are mine alone and not endorsements. I don’t answer DMs unless I know you. Even then it’s iffy

2,697 Followers  |  3,837 Following  |  243 Posts  |  Joined: 06.11.2024  |  2.1986

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Senate Democrats urge U.S. to stop funding GHF, resume support for U.N. food distribution in Gaza as more starve Senate Democrats told the secretary of state they have "grave concerns" about the U.S. role in financing GHF, the main group distributing aid in Gaza.

Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries — leading to even more deaths.

ENOUGH.

I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:

27.07.2025 21:52 — 👍 4628    🔁 1222    💬 189    📌 121

Please watch. Aguilar knows this is more than an interview. He is quite deliberately offering *testimony.*

One of the most incontrovertible statements I've seen–an American professional soldier, West Point-trained, bluntly stating he witnessed war crimes committed by the IDF and U.S. mercenaries.

26.07.2025 17:22 — 👍 350    🔁 160    💬 4    📌 1

It was never going to stop at trans people. They want to control everyone's Healthcare and dictate what you can take and when.

27.07.2025 19:39 — 👍 1242    🔁 337    💬 31    📌 7

Follow-up to this story. I wondered if I’d heard what I thought I heard and why that wasn’t the screaming headline: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.” Thank you, @hcrichardson.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

27.07.2025 18:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
RFK Jr. plans to fire advisory task force that determines which cancer screenings to recommend because they’re “too woke”

RFK Jr. plans to fire advisory task force that determines which cancer screenings to recommend because they’re “too woke”

Holy shit we’re legitimately at “some cancer screenings are too woke.”

26.07.2025 22:43 — 👍 17600    🔁 4661    💬 867    📌 431

They tell the young U.S. citizen he has no rights. They use violence — tasers and chokeholds — and laugh and joke about getting that $30,000 bonus.

This is who we are now

26.07.2025 04:54 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Fascism is here. You can say you don’t care, but you can’t say you don’t know.

25.07.2025 16:07 — 👍 8024    🔁 3063    💬 234    📌 125

The EPA is preparing a proposal that would revoke a critical 2009 legal determination stating that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health. That finding has been the backbone of U.S. climate regulations for over a decade.

23.07.2025 14:19 — 👍 6357    🔁 2405    💬 323    📌 202

You know how broken our political system is when a man who’s clearly deranged holds the highest office and the people who could remove him from that office continue to support him with gusto.

23.07.2025 20:22 — 👍 12836    🔁 2830    💬 482    📌 145

The United Nations’ highest court issued a legal opinion stating that nations are obligated to take action against climate change, warning that neglecting this responsibility could breach international law.

23.07.2025 23:56 — 👍 10183    🔁 2167    💬 206    📌 88
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Former Afghan interpreter for U.S. military detained by ICE after routine immigration appointment Zia’s arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betra...

The man's arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betrayal. [via @wbur.org]

23.07.2025 20:39 — 👍 14187    🔁 5540    💬 564    📌 411
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Oh wow hey @tulsigabbard did u see this?

23.07.2025 21:13 — 👍 17508    🔁 6130    💬 390    📌 242
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Ex-U.S. military translator from Afghanistan arrested by ICE in CT. Attorney calls it ‘nonsensical.’ The 35-year-old husband and father of five was taken into custody by ICE agents outside a routine green card appointment in East Hartford.

Zia, an Afghan interpreter who risked his life to help U.S. troops, is being detained by ICE in Massachusetts.

He's been living in the U.S. LEGALLY for fear of retribution if he returns to Afghanistan.

Targeting Zia and other Afghan allies is dangerous and wrong.

23.07.2025 15:00 — 👍 9813    🔁 3959    💬 457    📌 276

It's going to be so weird trying to explain to future history students how Jeffrey Epstein's best friend turned the US into North Korea with Truck Nuts

18.07.2025 16:46 — 👍 1460    🔁 200    💬 16    📌 8

Tech bros don’t want to save the world. They want to own it, brand it, license it, and charge you a monthly fee to visit.

13.07.2025 21:57 — 👍 16108    🔁 3614    💬 374    📌 152
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Trump officials used shadowy website to target pro-Palestinian academics for deportation, court records show The unsealed court records also reveal how deeply involved Trump aide Stephen Miller was in the effort to revoke the visas of pro-Palestinian academics.

NEW: Trump administration relied heavily on shadowy Canary Mission website to identify pro-Palestinian activists for deportation, per new court testimony. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller also deeply involved in project, records show. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

09.07.2025 20:36 — 👍 302    🔁 183    💬 9    📌 13
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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

"I wondered which border I had crossed without my knowledge" -- Rumeysa Ozturk, imprisoned for writing an op-ed in the Tufts University student newspaper. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

17.07.2025 12:12 — 👍 120    🔁 61    💬 1    📌 8
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Congress rolls back $9 billion in public media and foreign aid The House approved a Trump administration plan to rescind $9 billion in previously allocated funds, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Small towns and big cities alike rely on local radio to prepare for severe weather events.

Defunding public media violates our free speech rights and makes it more likely people won’t know about the next natural disaster until it’s at their doorstep.

18.07.2025 21:40 — 👍 310    🔁 92    💬 8    📌 1

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

17.07.2025 23:00 — 👍 11814    🔁 3143    💬 211    📌 97

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

18.07.2025 03:04 — 👍 35572    🔁 5626    💬 917    📌 289

I think Vance/Miller/Vought will be happy to pick up wherever Trump leaves off. So happy, in fact, I’m giving them the side eye for any “new” information being leaked to reporters. Whoever is feeding the Epstein story now with info they’ve been saving is the enemy of our enemy, but NOT our friend

18.07.2025 04:02 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

LESS THAN ONE MONTH AGO, the Speaker Emerita of the MN House of Reps & her husband were assassinated in their home by a right-wing christian man who also shot a State Senator & his wife, and had plans to kill more elected officials.

the nation has memory-holed this blatant act of political violence

12.07.2025 22:31 — 👍 1259    🔁 424    💬 36    📌 19

I know we know this by now, but it boggles the mind how poor the communications strategy is in this administration. It’s even harder to square with the effectiveness they’ve shown with getting basic talking points out to shills and penetrating low information voter spaces during campaigns

13.07.2025 00:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Someone pointed out Biden’s admin would have known anything implicating Trump would be seen as politically motivated. Seems quaint to have ever cared about such a perception, I know. Also criminal investigations don’t routinely (or didn’t in the past) release names of unindicted anyone, right?

12.07.2025 23:42 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

A federal judge just stepped in to temporarily block the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security from conducting broad, untargeted immigration stops and arrests in parts of California.

12.07.2025 11:34 — 👍 3422    🔁 501    💬 66    📌 29

So he’s worried enough something will come out to say that Obama wrote the Epstein files??? Or he thinks that by saying Epstein files are a hoax perpetrated by Dems he can make his base let go? But he and his people RAN on stoking these conspiracies. So they all fell for a “Dem hoax?” 🤯

12.07.2025 23:25 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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I encourage everyone to read this letter.

Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.

09.07.2025 23:09 — 👍 6562    🔁 2690    💬 395    📌 164

Reposting the Yarvin “agricultural labor” tweet in light of Times article showing Musk consulted him about third party creation

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...

09.07.2025 18:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Elon Musk Consulted Curtis Yarvin, Right-Wing Thinker, on Third Party

Speaking this dude’s name and linking him to politicians without showing his recent horrible tweets is malpractice. I don’t care if you mention he’s into “race science” and believes in a racial hierarchy. Stuff this vile needs to be seen to be believed

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...

09.07.2025 18:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Universities Are the Enemy”: The Dark Belief Behind Project 2025’s Higher Education Agenda | Washington Monthly The infamous 887-page policy manual linked to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance aims to take Ron DeSantis’s war against liberal arts education nationwide

Twas in Project 2025. They see universities as the seat of leftist power. They want to end as much of higher education as they can, at least where the “masses” are concerned. And with all the cuts so far they are well on their way. I have kids. This is tragic

washingtonmonthly.com/2024/10/14/u...

08.07.2025 00:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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