Lauren Coffee

Lauren Coffee

@lfcoffee.bsky.social

Co-Director of Policy and Advocacy @ACLUTX. Hockey fan. #TexasHockey. But always Mitch Marner’s #1 fan. Alum of: @GinaOrtizJones, @HillaryClinton, @BarackObama

143 Followers 131 Following 12 Posts Joined Nov 2024
9 months ago

Dallas is about to be as well. But at least Canada didn’t indiscriminately fire a bunch of people who make air travel safe.

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10 months ago

I think that is pretty specific to white Catholics in America.

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10 months ago
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Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it's destabilized by Trump's job cuts For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump administration's workforce cuts are now throwing that sense of stability up in the air.

For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump administration's workforce cuts are now throwing that sense of stability up in the air.

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10 months ago
Pogo is standing in the swamp collecting littler, and saying “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

Walt Kelly’s Pogo poster for the inaugural #EarthDay on April 22, 1970.

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1 year ago

I will just put this out there. If all the senators who are saying they want to block this bill really wanted to badly enough they could force Schumer's hand. This isn't 'if Mike Pence has courage'. A leader doesn't buck the overwhelming majority of his caucus. Doesn't happen.

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1 year ago

Watching Hakeem Jeffries on the morning shows is a great reminder that the Democratic Party basically is starting from scratch.

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1 year ago

And by “drugs” they mean vaccines and anti-depressants right?

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1 year ago

The mixing of activist leaders and elected Democrats is doing this argument a disservice. Activist leaders have to think about the safety of those they are leading. And frankly I’m not seeing a lot of elected officials showing the courage that would make me think they have our backs.

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1 year ago
Washington Post headline that says "Musk aides gain access to sensitive Treasury Department payment system" and a photo of Elon Musk with his kid on his shoulders. The caption for the photo says "Elon Musk walks through the Capitol complex with his son on his shoulders during meetings about the 'Department of Government Efficiency' in December. Musk allies now have access to sensitive payment systems run by the Treasury Department."

Using a two-month-old photo of Musk because he's with his kid and it makes him look loving or cute is a choice by an unnamed Washington Post editor who is working on behalf of Jeff Bezos to soften the image of a fascist takeover

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1 year ago
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BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide “We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:

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1 year ago

Just learned there are puffins in Ireland

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1 year ago
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
No. 23-477. United States v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney
General and Reporter for Tennessee, et al.
Certiorari to the C. A. 6th Circuit.
For petitioner: Elizabeth B. Prelogar, Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C.
For respondents L.W., et al. supporting petitioner: Chase B.
Strangio, New York, N. Y.
For respondents Jonathan Skrmetti, et al.: J. Matthew Rice, Solicitor General, Nashville, Tenn.
(1 hour for argument.)

UPDATE: At SCOTUS on Dec. 4, SG Elizabeth Prelogar and Chase Strangio from the ACLU will be arguing against Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors. Tenn SG Matthew Rice will be defending the ban. This was the expected lineup, but the hearing list formally came out today.

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1 year ago
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1 year ago

Next time he goes on a heater I’m going to need everyone to not say anything.

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1 year ago
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Say hello to the Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues NHL Winter Classic jerseys:

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1 year ago

I have Jeremy Swayman and Freddie Andersen as goalies on my fantasy team, in case you wondered how things were going this year. 😭

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1 year ago

Maps and charts showing how everyone is connected are two of my favorite things in a book!

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1 year ago

A few details would be very telling, like if the racial targeting was actually highly accurate. How do you acquire the phone numbers & how do you know people are Black? The first questions I would ask every single one of these people is whether they’ve ever had a Twitter account.

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1 year ago

Dems already did this on immigration and got painted as open border communist globalists anyway. This simply does not work. Dems need to have a back bone and actually argue from their differences with conservatives rather than bending over and adopting conservative lite positions because of polls.

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1 year ago

"The developments in this report lead the Special Committee to conclude that the policies and practices of Israel during the reporting period are consistent with the characteristics of genocide"
- from the UN Special Committee that, ignored by our media
documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...

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1 year ago
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PASSION overload on this celly

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1 year ago

How long until we get blue sky “main character of the day”. I miss arguing about a guy only feeding your daughter beans

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1 year ago
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Kamala Harris’s hidden barrier Her rise and fall illustrates the Glass Cliff.

New in PN: "Black women have long had to navigate being twice as good to get half the amount of credit. Kamala Harris’s presidential run was evidence of this." -- @itsafronomics.bsky.social

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1 year ago

I have zero faith this number won’t dwindle to nearly zero by the time they vote. 🙃

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