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Lisa Brooten

@lisabrooten.bsky.social

Media watcher, researcher, professor of media studies, change advocate, mother, traveler, questioner, work-in-progress. I contain multitudes (and sometimes contradict myself).

6,109 Followers  |  3,469 Following  |  2,002 Posts  |  Joined: 09.11.2024  |  1.9883

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I apologize for swearing but--are you fucking kidding me???

The NYT thinks that judges refusing to give Trump's DOJ the benefit of the doubt is "eroding the healthy functioning of the courts."

For democracy to survive, judges need to be more skeptical and impose greater sanctions for DOJ's lies.

04.08.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6172    πŸ” 1702    πŸ’¬ 273    πŸ“Œ 84
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πŸ”₯ β€œRespectfully, he’s making up some shit.”

Rep. jolanda jones, a lawyer, says Gov. Abbott threatening House @texasdemocrats.bsky.social with felonies is β€œsmoke and mirrors”

04.08.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5438    πŸ” 1654    πŸ’¬ 132    πŸ“Œ 108
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05.08.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 775    πŸ” 244    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 10

People should be up in arms about the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the destruction of the economy, the arrests of non-criminal immigrants and the increasing banning of books and other information sources in this country. Wake up, folks.

05.08.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3180    πŸ” 885    πŸ’¬ 113    πŸ“Œ 41
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Supremely Corrupt Court Injustice
Thomas,has Refused to recuse
Himself, from Monsanto cases......

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This about covers it.

04.08.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 10527    πŸ” 3335    πŸ’¬ 207    πŸ“Œ 141
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Absolutely correct.

05.08.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3590    πŸ” 1033    πŸ’¬ 134    πŸ“Œ 73
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MUST WATCH! Jasmine Crockett takes DOWN Texas AG Ken Paxton, who vowed to "hunt down" Democratic lawmakers who fled the state.

πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯LFG!

#MessWithTexas

04.08.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6503    πŸ” 1959    πŸ’¬ 209    πŸ“Œ 110

I know this will get me in trouble. I usually try not to curse but my military is showing…

These stupid motherfuckers want to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Boondoggle and a straight money enema to our oligarchs.

Epstein files must be very, very bad.

05.08.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 9598    πŸ” 2422    πŸ’¬ 444    πŸ“Œ 103
2019 – 2024 – Repeated denials and discovery stonewalling
Through years of communications with the police, the plaintiffs and the court through the investigation and later the discovery process for the lawsuit, Tesla never mentioned that it had all the data that explained how Autopilot saw the crash, which everyone was seeking, sitting on its servers for years.

The facts are:

Tesla had the data on its servers within minutes of the crash
When the police sought the data, Tesla redirected them toward other data
When the police sought Tesla’s help in extracting it from the computer, Tesla falsely claimed it was β€œcorrupted”
Tesla invented an β€œauto-delete” feature that didn’t exist to try explain why it couldn’t originally find the data in the computer
When the plaintiffs asked for the data, Tesla said that it didn’t exist
Tesla only admitted to the existence of the data once presented with forensic evidence that it was created and transfered to its servers.

2019 – 2024 – Repeated denials and discovery stonewalling Through years of communications with the police, the plaintiffs and the court through the investigation and later the discovery process for the lawsuit, Tesla never mentioned that it had all the data that explained how Autopilot saw the crash, which everyone was seeking, sitting on its servers for years. The facts are: Tesla had the data on its servers within minutes of the crash When the police sought the data, Tesla redirected them toward other data When the police sought Tesla’s help in extracting it from the computer, Tesla falsely claimed it was β€œcorrupted” Tesla invented an β€œauto-delete” feature that didn’t exist to try explain why it couldn’t originally find the data in the computer When the plaintiffs asked for the data, Tesla said that it didn’t exist Tesla only admitted to the existence of the data once presented with forensic evidence that it was created and transfered to its servers.

This whole story is insane. Tesla apparently did everything it could to avoid providing the data it had about its Autopilot crash. This is just a snippet and there's a lot more. electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

04.08.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3657    πŸ” 1286    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 105

She speaks truth in this question...

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On our lead story tonight:

05.08.2025 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 10050    πŸ” 2261    πŸ’¬ 246    πŸ“Œ 85

Texas Democrats aren’t running away from anything. They’re fighting, with every tool they have, to save our democracy.

Kudos to each and every one of them for taking this stand. We should be inspired by their courage and reminded that tyranny is only possible if we submit to it.

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New York has entered the chat πŸ’¬

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πŸ’―.

04.08.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 22086    πŸ” 6809    πŸ’¬ 327    πŸ“Œ 215
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How in the actual fuck are we supposed to effectively advocate for better education in this country when the "president" is out here spewing bullshit like this without any of his slobbering idiot supporters knowing what the math on that actually means???
Holy fuck.πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

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Q: Why did you cut snap and health care research?

Rep. Flood: We do not have unlimited money in the United States.

[Crowd booing]

04.08.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 15170    πŸ” 4380    πŸ’¬ 1959    πŸ“Œ 702
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Mockler: We are currently building on-the-ground and online movements at the same time so we can beat this gangster regime and stop what they are doing

BIG energy at the MoveOn event in Arizona yesterday.

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This isn't justice. This is one monster helping out another.

04.08.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 13918    πŸ” 5639    πŸ’¬ 505    πŸ“Œ 329
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This is what is happening right now.

04.08.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 22747    πŸ” 8056    πŸ’¬ 584    πŸ“Œ 362

Illinois has become a refuge for more than just LGBTQ+ folks and women seeking health care, it seems. Proud to live in this state right now.

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Talarico and Texas Dems break quorum to Halt Gerrymandering Vote.

03.08.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 22264    πŸ” 5702    πŸ’¬ 646    πŸ“Œ 394
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Virtually zero legacy media coverage of this statement. A couple of stories, that’s about it. The lies and insane statements have become completely normalized and are largely ignored now by Big Media.

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School has a whole walk out for a classmate who got deported by ICE ✊🏽

03.08.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3501    πŸ” 1241    πŸ’¬ 133    πŸ“Œ 99
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Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas Houseβ€”decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselvesβ€”they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.

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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

03.08.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7394    πŸ” 2874    πŸ’¬ 158    πŸ“Œ 225
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All the pundits who criticized Biden for his preemptive pardons should be ashamed of themselves. He knew exactly who Trump is

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Every. Single. Day. my teenagers wake up in a country in which raping children does not disqualify a financially & morally bankrupt felon from being President of the US.

But also in a country in a Code Red for air quality b/c the grown-ups are pretending there's no #ClimateCrisis.

#TrumpsteinFiles

03.08.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3849    πŸ” 1111    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 42

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