Laura Bloodgood

We all need to start thinking about the best ways to keep the 2026 election free and fair

How Gun Blasts From Indoor Shooting May Cause Brain Injuries The Times tested the blast waves of several popular civilian guns at an indoor range and found that repeated firing could add up to potentially harmful exposure.

Between this and the lead found in most protein powders, you gotta wonder how much of what the country is going through can be linked to brain damage: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The #Liz48 Plan: This Is How We Remove Them—Legally, Quickly, and Nonviolently The way to get rid of Trump—and his entire corrupt, inept Administration—is to cut the line of presidential succession. Here's the entire ten-step process.

Is there hope?

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FUN FACT: Saturday’s peaceful protests were 14 times bigger than both of Trump's inaugurations combined. #NoKings

This is ridiculous. It’s way past time to swear in Adelita Grijalva.

Every dollar for Trump’s ego is a dollar stolen from working families.
#TrumpHatesOurHealthCare

Trump is demanding his own administration give him $230 million.

He's cutting himself a taxpayer-funded check, and paying for it by cutting your healthcare and food assistance.

This is what corruption under authoritarianism looks like.

Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts.
#NoKings

Alexandria, VA today #NoKings

My heart is full! Cary NC has turned out spectacularly for No Kings!!

The people of Portland are amazing

‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

🚨NOW! A female protesting outside Broadview ICE facility is shot repeatedly with sting balls, thrown to the ground, maced point blank in the face, placed in a chokehold, arrested then taken into the ICE facility.

#AbolishICE #Chicago #ImpeachRemoveConvict

🎥@fordfisher

There comes a point when we can no longer “fight from within”. A point when the best way to protect the American people is to leave CDC. Deb, Dan, and Demetre reached that point. We are so proud of them for resigning. Loudly. As a warning. This is not surrender. This is fighting back.

This is everyone’s future if we don’t fight back. #freedc

As the piece notes, the PragerU propaganda is being used in schools in Louisiana, Florida, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Montana, Arizona, South Carolina and Idaho.

Check with your district to see if they're using this garbage to brainwash your kids.

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

The situation at the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has gotten so bad that detainees have been on a hunger strike for over ten straight days.

If you’ve ever thought about it before, even considered it, now is the time to step up and support NPR.

Nothing is normal. There’s a bill in North Carolina to make it illegal for election officials to encourage people to vote. Even nonpartisan outreach is under attack. Democracy is on the line. It’s never too early. REGISTER! Do it now! @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvva.bsky.social @lwvnc.bsky.social

“Eventually, the monster will come for all of us.”

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Alligator Alcatraz detainees allege inhumane conditions at immigration detention center Detainees claim they are enduring inhumane conditions, including lack of access to water, inadequate food and denial of religious rights.

Reports begin to emerge regarding the inhumane conditions under which people are being detained at the Florida Everglades concentration camp.

• One meal per day
• No showers
• Maggot-infested food
• Lights on 24/7

These are known torture tactics.

Many detainees are legal residents.

#OnYourSide

The GOP passed a budget that will eviscerate health care in rural areas. They delayed much of the impact for after the midterms, hoping the public will think any discussion of the impending collapse is hyperbolic.

Local reporters have a chance to do service journalism that'll make a splash too.

We need to pay attention to this

It’s unbelievable how bad this bill is. If you live in a Republican district, call your congressman and tell them to vote no

She was walking to work. An American citizen who was tackled, cuffed, and disappeared for 24 hours.

This is what racial profiling looks like.
With billions more going to ICE under the new bill, it will only get worse.

This is how they will fill the concentration camps.