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Lesa Tanner

@elsietea.bsky.social

Author of Images of America: Graton. Writer, grandma, and water aerobics devotee. Always moving forward. She/her. Democrat

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Do you think the CHP should be hunting down people with suspected traffic violations and grabbing them off the street and throwing them into detention facilities? A traffic ticket and being undocumented are the same level of civil lawbreaking. Why are we tolerating this behavior from ICE?

09.02.2026 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are Democrats listening? You’ve created the perfect messageβ€”the Epstein files need to become the Epstein trials! They need to hammer that now

06.02.2026 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

28.01.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 97506    πŸ” 40924    πŸ’¬ 4305    πŸ“Œ 5374

we have not "apprehended" the president of venezuela. we have invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. what the fuck are we doing here, i am going to lose my mind

03.01.2026 09:34 β€” πŸ‘ 8734    πŸ” 1870    πŸ’¬ 94    πŸ“Œ 39

He’s utterly mad, mentally unfit to be in that office, and a clear and present danger to this country & the world.

#25thAmendment. It’s time.

26.12.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4947    πŸ” 1099    πŸ’¬ 233    πŸ“Œ 60

Humans need other human beings to survive. I'm sorry that this makes some people lose their shit but it's one of the key truths of life.

15.11.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1540    πŸ” 364    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 0
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We ended up having 300 people!

21.10.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

We’re having a No Kings protest in my small town of Graton, CA. Our population is 1800 people and I expect over 100 participants!

16.10.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

29.08.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10131    πŸ” 2435    πŸ’¬ 277    πŸ“Œ 121

Every accusation is a confession

13.08.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How quickly would the crime rate drop if we deported MAGA men?

12.08.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1837    πŸ” 337    πŸ’¬ 144    πŸ“Œ 28

it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

06.08.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6858    πŸ” 2029    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 49

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03.08.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined. Try as it might, the government cannot cover up the horrors with bureaucratic legalese.

The Trump administration has quietly released the first stage of its plan to revoke birthright citizenship from the children of immigrants. It uses dry legalese to conceal the barbaric reality of ICE agents in maternity wards and deportation flights for babies. slate.com/news-and-pol...

30.07.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 812    πŸ” 466    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 76

Slavery is legal for incarcerated people.

15.07.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Celebrating our country’s independence from a monarchy given the state of things feels wrong. Like getting a Facebook birthday notification for a friend who’s dead.

04.07.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1615    πŸ” 278    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 11
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This Is Ethnic Cleansing. Dear Humans,

If the bill passes, it will make ICE the nation’s largest jailer, with more funding for prison camps than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons. It would give ICE enough money to have more officers than the entire FBI.

29.06.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 11151    πŸ” 5199    πŸ’¬ 646    πŸ“Œ 340

There are only three political positions in America today

1) I like the fascism

2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)

3) I oppose the fascism

The rest is details

28.06.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 19908    πŸ” 5111    πŸ’¬ 451    πŸ“Œ 282

As we see Trump attack Iran in violation of Constitutional law and Democratic leadership respond by writing groveling and impotent tweets, I'm reminded why someone described Republicans as the Uvalde shooter and Democrats as the cops who waited outside and did nothing. Smh.

23.06.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 296    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4
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you mean violence from ICE, the National Guard, and Border Patrol, right? because that’s the violence we’re seeing right now

08.06.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2019    πŸ” 303    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 3

immigrants belong in our community. ICE doesn't.

07.06.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4792    πŸ” 1023    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 15

The Trump Admin is considering doing a game show where immigrants compete for citizenshipβ€”because in their America, basic human rights are entertainment. This isn’t a game. It’s people’s lives. It’s cruelty as spectacle. It’s vile. The Apprentice: Fascism Edition.

17.05.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 734    πŸ” 168    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 16

Celebrate Mother’s Day by letting people choose whether or not to be mothers.

07.05.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3065    πŸ” 591    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 20
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Hitler gave people free train rides.

10.05.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 674    πŸ” 221    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 17

Trump supports the white kind of immigration.

10.05.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 402    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 1

the fool notion that our society is a corporation and everything it does must generate profit for a group of shareholders needs to be demolished forever; we own it and the services are the profit it generates for us, if we demolish the services somebody's getting the $$ and it ain't us

10.05.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 676    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5
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Congrats everyone β€” we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. πŸ˜³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ theonion.com/ice-agents-w...

02.05.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 16684    πŸ” 5668    πŸ’¬ 415    πŸ“Œ 325

Were any of the mass shooting victims millionaires? Oligarchy means rich people are important and the rest of us are expendable.

02.05.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0