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@tlagasse.bsky.social

Writer. 2025 E Ethelbert Miller Prize. Poet Laureate of Bristol, CT. Pro-Democracy. Open Mic Night host.

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SNAP benefits expire in one week.

23.10.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 16704    πŸ” 4943    πŸ’¬ 494    πŸ“Œ 122
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ICE in Portland: β€œDear God, they’re Jazzercising in formation! Light β€˜em up!”

23.10.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 10257    πŸ” 2638    πŸ’¬ 461    πŸ“Œ 222

The campaign against β€œantifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as β€œterrorists.”

10.10.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 19557    πŸ” 6030    πŸ’¬ 865    πŸ“Œ 290

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.

Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

02.10.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 12451    πŸ” 4826    πŸ’¬ 756    πŸ“Œ 334

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.

Let that sink in

02.10.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 25157    πŸ” 8937    πŸ’¬ 1402    πŸ“Œ 424
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US Army unveils new grooming policy Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, initiated a militarywide review of standards earlier this year.

Secretary Pete Hegseth's new facial hair grooming standards are discriminatory against troops who can't shave for religious reasons and Black and Brown people, who are more likely to have skin conditions that make shaving difficult and painful.

02.10.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 426    πŸ” 141    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 16

And he's the enemy...

30.09.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The GOP SHUTDOWN of the federal government will:
🚨Skyrocket costs
🚨Screw up essential services
🚨Abandon disaster victims
🚨Make everyday life even WORSE for Americans

This is America after nine months of Donald Trump.

30.09.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1871    πŸ” 690    πŸ’¬ 169    πŸ“Œ 40
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www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

30.09.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8872    πŸ” 3323    πŸ’¬ 306    πŸ“Œ 139
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Ronald Reagan–appointed U.S. District Judge William Young:

β€œICE goes masked for a single reason β€” to terrorize Americans into quiescence… To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”

30.09.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6465    πŸ” 2348    πŸ’¬ 192    πŸ“Œ 97
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YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension YouTube is the latest social media company to pay Trump tens of millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits brought before he returned to power. The money will fund a new ballroom at the White House.

Google's YouTube will pay Trump $24.5m for suspending his account re J6. $22m of it will go to constructing the $200m WH ballroom.

Meta will pay $25m over FB & IG Trump J6 suspensions. X paid $10m, which Trump called 'a big discount.'

30.09.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

FYI. If the Govt shuts down, everyone stays in town including the president but you’re just bored with nothing to do because it’s all messaging and negotiations.

GREAT TIME TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

30.09.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 20094    πŸ” 4833    πŸ’¬ 418    πŸ“Œ 117

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

30.09.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 49912    πŸ” 15590    πŸ’¬ 670    πŸ“Œ 724
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β€œTo us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

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πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

30.09.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 16194    πŸ” 6248    πŸ’¬ 308    πŸ“Œ 199

I’m still processing what happened this morning.

Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?

30.09.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 16702    πŸ” 3819    πŸ’¬ 1083    πŸ“Œ 214
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Perfect

30.09.2025 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6696    πŸ” 1519    πŸ’¬ 138    πŸ“Œ 78

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

30.09.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 24995    πŸ” 6216    πŸ’¬ 355    πŸ“Œ 237
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It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.

Apparently, I’m a β€œdangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.

But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

30.09.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 23109    πŸ” 6157    πŸ’¬ 486    πŸ“Œ 233
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One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.

29.09.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 18430    πŸ” 6043    πŸ’¬ 1786    πŸ“Œ 477

Since every Republican in Congress is repeating their false talking point over & over that β€œDemocrats want to shut down the govt to give free healthcare to illegal aliens,” it would be helpful if some Democrats in Congress could address that argument with facts at some point.

29.09.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4903    πŸ” 1228    πŸ’¬ 356    πŸ“Œ 106
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Oregon AG Rayfield: I know for a fact, from talking to cities across Oregon, that if you pick up the phone and ask, β€œWhat could be helpful?” the answer would not be the United States military.

28.09.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 12743    πŸ” 3104    πŸ’¬ 225    πŸ“Œ 68
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Congrats to team Europe for winning the Ryder Cup. Historic and well deserved.

Our fans were disgraceful. An embarrassment to the US team and the game of golf.

No class, dignity or grace…just like their cult leader in the White House.

29.09.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 15479    πŸ” 4442    πŸ’¬ 1024    πŸ“Œ 410

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%.

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

28.09.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 15386    πŸ” 5199    πŸ’¬ 383    πŸ“Œ 168
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79. American citizen.

28.09.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 23998    πŸ” 11755    πŸ’¬ 1994    πŸ“Œ 1370
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Worker taking a break from pruning with an ice bottle under her hat to cool down

Worker taking a break from pruning with an ice bottle under her hat to cool down

"Mona" was pruning citrus trees in CAs Central Valley. It was over 100Β° on this day. She sat down, putting an ice water bottle on her head to cool off a little. She is glad she's able to rest & cool off when she needs it, thanks to the CA heat laws the UFW fought for. #WeFeedYou

28.09.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 557    πŸ” 119    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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It’s a fact. Data from three decades of political violence reveals that right-wing terror attacks outnumber attacks from the left.

And it’s not even close!

27.09.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 14863    πŸ” 6546    πŸ’¬ 590    πŸ“Œ 337

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