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Lara Stapleton

@larastap.bsky.social

Author, The Ruin of Everything, Paloma Press. Prof., BMCC of CUNY. Mixed Filipino-Am. I love: books, my students who have excellent brains & deserve the world, historical linguistics, Austronesian brilliance, bingewatching, decent humans. Art is everything

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”We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

~ Elie Wiesel ~

If you're a person of influence in this countryπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ & you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a f*cking side.

2/3🧡

21.11.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 238    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 3

β€œHousing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

14.11.2025 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 8030    πŸ” 3242    πŸ’¬ 248    πŸ“Œ 118

Ha ha ha.

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This is a fckung abomination.

30.10.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

And this money that corporations should pay employees goes to them as profit. We're funding their obscene wealth.

30.10.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP.

A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.

I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

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Exactly

29.10.2025 06:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1495    πŸ” 438    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 10
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Oops!

28.10.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Numbered all this wrong, sorry :p

29.10.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We could do that in cafes. In gentrifying neighborhoods. LET'S DO THIS. Please share if you agree. #TaxTheRich

29.10.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What if we loved our neighbors with our time and energy and the funds we can spare? What if we made a huge, loving spectacle? A Portland cafe put out a link raising money to help feed neighbors and they quickly got $76,000.

29.10.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They want crime to skyrocket so they can militarize before the Epstein files come out, indicting not just Trump, but many billionaires.They want to militarize to enslave people to hoard more money. What if we did the opposite of the hate they want to inspire? 3/4

29.10.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The #Mamdani rainbow coalition of a (mostly) middle-class army of volunteers (and MORE of us) could drive into working class neighborhoods with carloads of food-- We could help raise funds.

29.10.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What a beautiful thing it would be if, as SNAP benefits are withheld by our psychopathic government, middle class New Yorkers helped working class and poor New Yorkers eat, and if we did so visibly, loudly, enthusiastically...1/4

29.10.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

During circle time today, my daughter's class processed seeing a man get detained by ICE outside of their school.
Last week ICE pulled guns outside of my 7 y.o school. Today, it was outside of my 10 y.o's school.
Repubs want us to fear adults in drag around kids, I'm afraid of ICE agents in masks.

28.10.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 562    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 7

Yes. They thought they could sneak out a SECOND $20 Billion bailout package and no one would notice because it was the same amount as the first one.

And just two weeks before the Argentinian elections, in order to shore up Trump's buddy's chances.

16.10.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

The fact we’ve let the equivalent of three Nazis in a trench coat take over a supposed democracy of hundreds of millions warrants much more than prison for one man. It warrants the complete upheaval of the world order and banishment to the darkest depths forever πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

23.10.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING: Antifa leader Habeas Corpus has been arrested in Portland.

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They have been slaughtering people all day. There is no ceasefire.

09.10.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Six months for abusing a twelve-year-old? My GOD! People spent a decade in prison for marijuana.

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This seems like incitement to violence against judges.

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WTF Dems in #Congress

Fight for Adelina Grijalva to be seated to Release the #EpsteinFiles before the fat lying criminal grifter pedo has them all redacted or destroyed - oopsie πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

This is your best oppty to stop him and his minions from destroying the #Constitution to distract #MAGA from pedos.

04.10.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, dems are not fighting hard for her because she rejected AIPAC money. They owned.

04.10.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The dems are not fighting for this because she rejected AIPAC money.

04.10.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dems are not fighting for Adelita Grijalva because she rejected AIPAC money.

04.10.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Maybe… it’s time to let the Red states rot. They’d do it to us.

19.08.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 408    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1

Then we withhold our taxes from the federal government. The blue states fund the red states.

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