@lmbrooks.bsky.social
Mom, teacher, artist, animal-lover, avid reader
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he began what many in 2025 STILL consider a romantic tryst or loving affair with Sally Hemings.
Ms. Hemings had no legal capacity to consent to such a relationship not only because she was enslaved, Jefferson's property,
BUT ALSO BECAUSE SHE WAS 14-YEARS-OLD. /1
pro tip: innocent people don't generally suppress the files that prove their innocence
22.07.2025 02:15 — 👍 8662 🔁 2141 💬 134 📌 73Thank you, Senator Booker! I finally have a little hope that people in our government will fight to keep our democracy. 💙
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"If the administration succeeds in privatizing the government-run Student Loan Program, college will become much more expensive, significantly shrinking the number of kids who’ll be able to attend. And that seems to be the point..."
educationwars.substack.com/p/connecting...
Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.
01.04.2025 21:32 — 👍 59166 🔁 7308 💬 755 📌 248
Just posting my dog sleeping while I pretend all is right with the world.
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Toxic positivity, be damned, Herman Hesse reminds us that true optimism is not the denial of suffering. It is the will to perceive beauty amidst the suffering, and to conceive compassion despite suffering: “because the world is so full of death and horror I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell“
From @yepicurus on instagram
28.02.2025 01:21 — 👍 4938 🔁 854 💬 83 📌 37Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend belittling Zelinsky for not wearing a suit in a disrespectful, condescending manner. Disgraceful and a global embarrassment. I'll bet he'd never ask Elon Musk that question. This is a freaking coup America!
28.02.2025 20:44 — 👍 52 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0I would like to apologize to all of the sane, respectable leaders of the world. Many of us didn’t vote for the felon. He does NOT speak for us. Also, what’s your immigration policy? I don’t know how much longer I can stay in this shit hole country.
28.02.2025 22:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0are you fucking kidding me? the Space Nazi wore a tee shirt and baseball cap to a cabinet meeting
28.02.2025 19:07 — 👍 2774 🔁 407 💬 176 📌 16I don’t know if I have ever in my lifetime felt more embarrassed to be an American than I feel at this very moment…
28.02.2025 18:38 — 👍 22507 🔁 3062 💬 1317 📌 223For the record, do I think a one-day boycott is going to make much of an economic impact? No. Do I think that a sort of "Baby's First Boycott," performative though it is, might be useful to make some folks aware of the impact of their economic power, and how it might be wielded politically? Maybe.
28.02.2025 15:35 — 👍 16588 🔁 1183 💬 1027 📌 157This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.
28.02.2025 19:22 — 👍 65177 🔁 10164 💬 3285 📌 621Trump and his bigoted red state lawmaker cronies are deputizing every bigot to harm anyone who doesn’t look “American enough” to them…
25.01.2025 14:58 — 👍 1296 🔁 389 💬 66 📌 26The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good.
Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.
ideally, you want the President of the United States, an adjudicated rapist and a convicted felon to be three different people
16.11.2024 20:48 — 👍 4741 🔁 778 💬 107 📌 24Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
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