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Lynn
@lynnlaughs.bsky.social
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Avid explorer of places and ideas. 💙 Proud Louisiana progressive. Pro Union. Photog. RN. Former EMT-P. Healthcare is a right. Public office is a privilege. Good coffee is a gift. Follow for political & healthcare news, opinions & snark.🚫creepy DMs.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Mar 3
If you want to know what to do, start here.
A must-read from @robertmannbooks.com
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Courage is contagious
My short guide for finding the courage to speak out. Here’s how you can catch it and pass it on.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 25
www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.
While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Sep 24
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As Texas flooded, key staff say FEMA’s leader could not be reached
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting administrator, David Richardson, is often inaccessible, several current and former officials say, raising concerns within the agency.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 24
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Will Sutton: One Louisiana station went dark on Kimmel, but millions nationwide tuned in
Will Sutton wants you to watch the latest episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live," even if you have to go online to find it. Here's why.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 17
Y'all need to stop making fun of Kash Patel. Y'all act like you've never made that exact same face when suddenly confronted by a slow flushing toilet at the home of a new acquaintance. So just quit it.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 14
So, I'm seeing signs this platform is dying off. Does anyone know where to find reliable stats?
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 14
I share this pain. My cats will sit at the sliding glass door and yell, 10 feet away from the 5 year old entrance built especially for them. The same one they use anytime I am not within eyesight. The same one they fly through when the lawn man shows up. That one.
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · Sep 13
No different than the Nazis of 1930s Germany with their idolatry of Hitler, for far-right MAGA fascists, everything is a purity test measuring a person's loyalty and devotion to Trump. It's a fucking fools parade of sycophants.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 13
This you? Just two hours later?
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · Sep 13
This is horrifying and an example of just what is going on right now.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Sep 13
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Sep 13
Yes, quite.
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · Sep 13
Well, I'm sorry but you must be forgetting that the man who killed Charlie Kirk was a white man from a wealthy conservative family, who did very well in school and who received scholarships. Who are we, as white men fighting back against? Asking for the intelligent white men.

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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 13
16/16. I cannot undo Kirk’s words. I cannot undo his death. But I can resist the contagion of hate that is overtaking all sides. I can choose, again and again, grace. Even when it costs me. Especially when it costs me. You can, too. Only love will make us great again. Not hate.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 13
15/16. It takes little more than a brief review of world history and present geopolitics to understand that truth is on full display.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 13
14/16. The physicist Steven Weinberg once said: “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil, that takes religion.”
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 13
13/16. And most disturbingly, we hear religious leaders, charged with preaching love, turn pulpits into loudspeakers of hatred, disguising cruelty as virtue and division as faith. That, above all, chills me.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 13
12/16. And so we scroll through feeds dripping with terror and outrage.
We watch conspiracy merchants grow rich by feeding us lies. We see extremism packaged and sold in the same marketplace as entertainment.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 13
11/16. Immigrants, fleeing wars, disasters, and poverty in search of the same opportunities this nation once proudly promised, are cast as invaders, criminals, and parasites. The great betrayal is not theirs, but ours, when we reject them.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 13
10/16. And who gets painted as the enemy? The poor are scorned as lazy and undeserving, rather than seen as people crushed by systems that reward the wealthy and punish the struggling. Minorities are demonized as drains on society, when in truth they are the lifeblood of its culture and progress.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 13
9/16. Fear is the currency they trade in, because once people learn to fear, it is only a small step further to teach them to hate.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 13
8/16. What kind of country are we shaping, where hatred has become our common language? We are drowning in it, whipped daily into frenzy by pundits and politicians who profit in money and power from the chaos.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 13
7/16. To them, our existence is evil. Our relationship not worthy of recognition and undeserving of the full rights afforded by our marriage.
But I will not accept their definitions. I will not take up their hatred and wear it as my own. They can choose hate. I refuse.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 13
6/16. In MAGA world, the righteous does not include me. To their movement, I am the threat. A gay, childless Democrat. Married to a woman who is gentle and good, and yet painted as wicked in their eyes, simply for loving me.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 13
5/16. They twisted tragedy into an engine for their own power, pouring poison into the wound before the body was even cold. They framed themselves as saviors in a war of good versus evil, protectors of the righteous besieged by unseen hordes.
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Lynn @lynnlaughs.bsky.social · Sep 13
4/16. In the hours after his murder, GOP leaders, our president among them, rushed to point fingers. They cast blame on leftists, on trans people, on Democrats, on Antifa, on anyone who fits into the pantheon of enemies they rely upon.
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