@lamarfranktriplett.bsky.social
Lover of Life
KIYAC — the Kat for Illinois Youth Advisory Council — is putting on its first campaign event!
Come get a free car wash, drop off your winter clothes, and pick up a yard sign at Double Clutch Brewing Company in Evanston til 10:30!
Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence.
This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.
Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones: "In New Hampshire we do not provide health insurance for illegal immigrants, we have never done that, and you are just wrong."
02.10.2025 13:40 — 👍 15463 🔁 4340 💬 842 📌 245Vote
26.09.2025 04:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Every mayoral administration leaves behind successes we can learn from—even if we disagreed with the mayor themselves.
Good to talk a little NYC history on @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social with @jonathancapehart.bsky.social this morning.
She literally terrorized her staff and guests.
20.09.2025 19:42 — 👍 32 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
reminder for people in the bay area of california.
would love to see you in a few weeks.
tickets at link in post below.
This is amazing.
20.09.2025 10:34 — 👍 8627 🔁 3726 💬 76 📌 541Morning Kittens
19.09.2025 14:03 — 👍 221 🔁 22 💬 7 📌 2I am proud to be born a Muslim.
I am proud to be born in Somalia.
I am proud to have become an American.
None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet.
Drink some water and touch grass.
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
19.09.2025 13:54 — 👍 27415 🔁 12654 💬 1707 📌 820Congratulations to @teamsters.bsky.social Local 210 workers at Perrigo in the Bronx on your strong new contract.
Workers shouldn't have to strike to win dignity and respect on the job — but sometimes that's what it takes.
David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
18.09.2025 23:06 — 👍 29866 🔁 9963 💬 659 📌 475❗️Zelensky from the frontline near Pokrovsk and Dobropillya:
"We are conducting one of our counteroffensive operations, heavy fighting, but our troops have inflicted serious losses on the Russians. 160 sq. km have been liberated, over 170 more have been cleared.
Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.
18.09.2025 14:27 — 👍 22809 🔁 9465 💬 1568 📌 912Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.
I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.
Listen carefully to what Jimmy Kimmel said...
18.09.2025 00:17 — 👍 826 🔁 336 💬 53 📌 54
Asexuality teaches us that we can, and should, celebrate platonic bonds in the ways usually reserved for romance
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/exploring-asexuality-has-allowed-me-to-recognise-all-the-love-stories-in-my-life-and-celebrate-platonic-love/
NEWS: Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor
"We’ve had our disagreements. But in our conversations, I heard a leader who shares my commitment to a New York where children can grow up safe in their neighborhoods and where opportunity is within reach for every family."
WWJD? Not what Kilmeade said on Foxnews
13.09.2025 23:31 — 👍 14575 🔁 4079 💬 1063 📌 294Stephen Miller is an extremely dangerous and dishonest man
13.09.2025 07:21 — 👍 952 🔁 241 💬 170 📌 26
Kirk died on Wednesday after being shot in the neck during a speech in Orem, Utah.
11.09.2025 06:59 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 12 📌 1
Stephen Colbert opened Wednesday’s episode of The Late Show with a statement about the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, calling it a tragic moment that "must not be the start of something worse."
11.09.2025 07:11 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Nigel Farage’s Reform Party is being advised by a think tank which denies the science of climate change and claims the UK government wants to use electric vehicles to control its citizens.
11.09.2025 07:27 — 👍 68 🔁 37 💬 12 📌 8
For those applying to a PhD program, I’m posting my personal statement and my journey to demystify the process. I struggled writing my statement because I didn’t have enough examples, particularly from folks with a non-linear journey to the PhD.
isawsomethingspooky.substack.com/p/my-persona...
We do not forget nor forgive.
06.09.2025 19:50 — 👍 2501 🔁 1198 💬 83 📌 142
“The surgeon general from the first Trump administration on Saturday said that the US president should ‘absolutely’ fire health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr over his ‘dangerous’ policies on #vaccines and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( #CDC).”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
With the one-month limit (sans congressional approval) on Trump’s takeover approaching, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has ordered that the city work with federal law enforcement indefinitely.
Trump is reportedly delighted. trib.al/jOrwYei
