Louis S. Ramirez
@lsr312.bsky.social
I once identified as many things. Now I simply accept what I am – a simple man, navigating a confusing and fallen world that wounded me deeply. Now, with Christ as my guide, I can finally chart a better path forward.
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Louis S. Ramirez
@lsr312.bsky.social
· Sep 6
Lord, please help tend the flame of hope within me, let it persist through the howling winds and bitter cold racing to scour these lands, for without it I am but another ruin in the barrens.
Let me be the warmth, the shelter, the light that calls out to other weary travelers.
Amen.
Let me be the warmth, the shelter, the light that calls out to other weary travelers.
Amen.
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When a group of blue state attorney's general submitted a strident defense of trans healthcare to Trump's FTC, no one in the media covered it.
No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.
No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.
State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned
Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
When a group of blue state attorney's general submitted a strident defense of trans healthcare to Trump's FTC, no one in the media covered it.
No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.
No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.
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Kudos to the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times for this incredible reporting. This took work and time.
DeSantis admin diverted child welfare and medical funds for consultants, ads
DeSantis admin diverted child welfare and medical funds for consultants, ads
A Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times investigation found the DeSantis’ administration’s use of public money to fund a campaign against marijuana and abortion access was more sprawling than previously kn...
www.miamiherald.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Kudos to the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times for this incredible reporting. This took work and time.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
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The Cinnabon thing also makes me sad. Not cause she got fired, but because, apparently, outing someone as a racist nets them money, these days.
You should be embarrassed for writing this dreck. It’s not up to you to decide how much antiblackness Cinnabon customers should be forced to endure because you feel sorry for some dumb white broad who couldn’t keep her racist opinions to herself. Shame on you.
Stay in your lane.
Stay in your lane.
I wrote about why we should not celebrate someone losing their job, especially in today’s America, even when they’ve done terrible racist things.
Losing a job should also be harder and involve workers’ bodies not unilateral management decisions.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Losing a job should also be harder and involve workers’ bodies not unilateral management decisions.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The Cinnabon thing also makes me sad. Not cause she got fired, but because, apparently, outing someone as a racist nets them money, these days.
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Where was this fucker when people were getting fired for tweeting about Charlie Kirk? Where was this shithead when people were getting fired and targeted for taking part or reposting pro-Palestine protest? Where was this twat when faculty were suspended or fired for giving Fs to rightwing idiots?
You should be embarrassed for writing this dreck. It’s not up to you to decide how much antiblackness Cinnabon customers should be forced to endure because you feel sorry for some dumb white broad who couldn’t keep her racist opinions to herself. Shame on you.
Stay in your lane.
Stay in your lane.
I wrote about why we should not celebrate someone losing their job, especially in today’s America, even when they’ve done terrible racist things.
Losing a job should also be harder and involve workers’ bodies not unilateral management decisions.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Losing a job should also be harder and involve workers’ bodies not unilateral management decisions.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Where was this fucker when people were getting fired for tweeting about Charlie Kirk? Where was this shithead when people were getting fired and targeted for taking part or reposting pro-Palestine protest? Where was this twat when faculty were suspended or fired for giving Fs to rightwing idiots?
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Recap: White supremacists terrorized Black & Indigenous people for 300 yrs. When that terror became illegal, white rebel groups cont it another century. No reparations ever paid. Now teaching this history is “Antifa terror”
America: White supremacist terror ignored
Document that history: terror 😐
America: White supremacist terror ignored
Document that history: terror 😐
December 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Recap: White supremacists terrorized Black & Indigenous people for 300 yrs. When that terror became illegal, white rebel groups cont it another century. No reparations ever paid. Now teaching this history is “Antifa terror”
America: White supremacist terror ignored
Document that history: terror 😐
America: White supremacist terror ignored
Document that history: terror 😐
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Serious question -
By continuing to give Trump cover for all of the criminality, which now includes murder on the high seas and possibly piracy AND starting an illegal war, could certain members of SCOTUS be held liable for being accomplices for the crimes while Trump is immune?
By continuing to give Trump cover for all of the criminality, which now includes murder on the high seas and possibly piracy AND starting an illegal war, could certain members of SCOTUS be held liable for being accomplices for the crimes while Trump is immune?
The US Govt — which bombed the Houthis for seizing ships that were enabling the Gaza genocide — has now seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
The 2001 "war on terror" was a war for oil.
The 2025 "war on narco terror" is a war for oil.
This your "America First" POTUS. Are we great yet?🤔
The 2001 "war on terror" was a war for oil.
The 2025 "war on narco terror" is a war for oil.
This your "America First" POTUS. Are we great yet?🤔
December 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Serious question -
By continuing to give Trump cover for all of the criminality, which now includes murder on the high seas and possibly piracy AND starting an illegal war, could certain members of SCOTUS be held liable for being accomplices for the crimes while Trump is immune?
By continuing to give Trump cover for all of the criminality, which now includes murder on the high seas and possibly piracy AND starting an illegal war, could certain members of SCOTUS be held liable for being accomplices for the crimes while Trump is immune?
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Israel’s genocide on Palestinians has 8% support from Democrats but 71% support from MAGAs
If you’re an elected Dem still taking AIPAC $ or still silent on genocide—you’re on the wrong side of history, or a MAGA
You dont get to claim you condemn Trump’s fascism while embracing Netanyahu’s genocide
If you’re an elected Dem still taking AIPAC $ or still silent on genocide—you’re on the wrong side of history, or a MAGA
You dont get to claim you condemn Trump’s fascism while embracing Netanyahu’s genocide
December 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Israel’s genocide on Palestinians has 8% support from Democrats but 71% support from MAGAs
If you’re an elected Dem still taking AIPAC $ or still silent on genocide—you’re on the wrong side of history, or a MAGA
You dont get to claim you condemn Trump’s fascism while embracing Netanyahu’s genocide
If you’re an elected Dem still taking AIPAC $ or still silent on genocide—you’re on the wrong side of history, or a MAGA
You dont get to claim you condemn Trump’s fascism while embracing Netanyahu’s genocide
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What's funny is this is clearly good. End the war on drugs, full stop. But it's just going to further piss off factions of his fracturing coalition.
🍃 SCOOP 🍃
President Trump is preparing to order his administration to dramatically loosen restrictions on MARIJUANA.
The order would reclassify cannabis from Schedule I — the same level as heroin — to Schedule III — the same level as Tylenol and codeine and some steroids.
President Trump is preparing to order his administration to dramatically loosen restrictions on MARIJUANA.
The order would reclassify cannabis from Schedule I — the same level as heroin — to Schedule III — the same level as Tylenol and codeine and some steroids.
Trump seeks to cut restrictions on marijuana through planned order
The president is expected to attempt to classify marijuana similar to some common prescription painkillers and other drugs.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
What's funny is this is clearly good. End the war on drugs, full stop. But it's just going to further piss off factions of his fracturing coalition.
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People keep acting surprised when all these entertainment industry people make passionate anti-AI statements and like… you realize they like their jobs and want to keep them, right?
December 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
People keep acting surprised when all these entertainment industry people make passionate anti-AI statements and like… you realize they like their jobs and want to keep them, right?
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I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
men’s loneliness gets “more airtime”?
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
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TEACH YOUR SONS ABOUT CONSENT, COERCION, SAFE SEX (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY) WHILE THEY ARE YOUNG!!! INGRAIN IT IN THEM SO WHEN THEY SEE THEIR PEERS DOING SOMETHING WRONG THEY CAN IDENTIFY IT!
December 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
TEACH YOUR SONS ABOUT CONSENT, COERCION, SAFE SEX (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY) WHILE THEY ARE YOUNG!!! INGRAIN IT IN THEM SO WHEN THEY SEE THEIR PEERS DOING SOMETHING WRONG THEY CAN IDENTIFY IT!
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This is a dangerously broad and generalizing statement and thus perilous to make as a historian, but a good rule of thumb is to disbelieve anyone saying “people in the past had it better” in almost any regard other than very specific things like “worries about nuclear war.”
A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.
Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.
Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.
👇
December 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is a dangerously broad and generalizing statement and thus perilous to make as a historian, but a good rule of thumb is to disbelieve anyone saying “people in the past had it better” in almost any regard other than very specific things like “worries about nuclear war.”
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“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”
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Friendly reminder that there is no “War on Christmas” and you can still say “Merry Christmas” if you want. (Though we should point out that “Happy Holidays” literally means “Happy Holy Days” so it’s still a very Christian thing to say!)
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December 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Friendly reminder that there is no “War on Christmas” and you can still say “Merry Christmas” if you want. (Though we should point out that “Happy Holidays” literally means “Happy Holy Days” so it’s still a very Christian thing to say!)
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If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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This is basic mafia and street gang stuff. Get the foot soldiers to do crimes that will send them away for life and then they have no easy way out
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This is basic mafia and street gang stuff. Get the foot soldiers to do crimes that will send them away for life and then they have no easy way out
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The Venezuela boat murders are meant to be a gateway drug to domestic murders. The “you can’t let this MAGA regime out of power now because you military are going to jail if we leave” is a powerful cooption technique but not atypical for authoritarian regimes
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Venezuela boat murders are meant to be a gateway drug to domestic murders. The “you can’t let this MAGA regime out of power now because you military are going to jail if we leave” is a powerful cooption technique but not atypical for authoritarian regimes
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Word.
December 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Word.
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This is disturbing, but also, how do we stop it? Consumers basically have no rights in this country. Our right to privacy is a joke. We are being profiled constantly.
From More Perfect Union: "We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. The scary part? It's not just online.
Our months-long investigation with Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative found it could cost families $1,200/year."
Our months-long investigation with Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative found it could cost families $1,200/year."
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is disturbing, but also, how do we stop it? Consumers basically have no rights in this country. Our right to privacy is a joke. We are being profiled constantly.
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I enjoyed reading Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think about Abortion, by Gabrielle Blair
The library had it available and the audio version's good.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/gabri...
The library had it available and the audio version's good.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/gabri...
January 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I enjoyed reading Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think about Abortion, by Gabrielle Blair
The library had it available and the audio version's good.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/gabri...
The library had it available and the audio version's good.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/gabri...
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WHICH MESSAGE WILL RESONATE WITH DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY VOTERS?
"Better angels of our nature"
OR
"Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger... I will punish the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pomp of the ruthless."
"Better angels of our nature"
OR
"Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger... I will punish the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pomp of the ruthless."
Once again, for 2028 I'm a single issue voter and that issue is post-Trump lustration. GTFO with "better angels of our nature" for once.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
WHICH MESSAGE WILL RESONATE WITH DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY VOTERS?
"Better angels of our nature"
OR
"Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger... I will punish the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pomp of the ruthless."
"Better angels of our nature"
OR
"Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger... I will punish the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pomp of the ruthless."