Susan Lauer
@susanl.bsky.social
We have more in common than divides us when we fight for the promise of America.
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On this day of gratitude I share with you some who inspire and give me hope that we will break bread across communities and lift each other up to build a better tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving!
With Giving Tuesday soon, reply with donation links for community-based orgs you know.
go.bsky.app/SC9gLjD
With Giving Tuesday soon, reply with donation links for community-based orgs you know.
go.bsky.app/SC9gLjD
Years ago someone else coined the term “High Earners Not Rich Yet” …. The income is deceiving because of the costs associated with earning it - school loans, childcare, urban housing, “convenience costs” for working insane hours and not being able to care for the basics. apple.news/AT5iQLbFzTea...
Wall Street strategist explains today’s political rage with a poverty line that should be $140,000 and the ‘Valley of Death’ trapping people below it — FORTUNE
Invalid date EDT The affordability crisis rippling through American politics saw voters dump Democrats for another Donald Trump presidency last year, while this year saw a democratic socialist elected...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Years ago someone else coined the term “High Earners Not Rich Yet” …. The income is deceiving because of the costs associated with earning it - school loans, childcare, urban housing, “convenience costs” for working insane hours and not being able to care for the basics. apple.news/AT5iQLbFzTea...
Trump says Venezuela airspace should be considered “closed in its entirety” - AFP News
1) isn’t this the President who said “No, new wars”?
2) It’s up to Congress to declare war.
1) isn’t this the President who said “No, new wars”?
2) It’s up to Congress to declare war.
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Trump says Venezuela airspace should be considered “closed in its entirety” - AFP News
1) isn’t this the President who said “No, new wars”?
2) It’s up to Congress to declare war.
1) isn’t this the President who said “No, new wars”?
2) It’s up to Congress to declare war.
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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
(sound)
DAY 28 NOVEMBER 2O25
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
BLACK FRIDAY
WE AIN'T BUYING IT
BRAVO TO YOU
KEEPYOUR POWER WORKING NOW THRU CYBER MONDAY
Shout out toTENNESSEE
You in TN07
AFTYN BEHN in ruby red district....SHE is only 2 points away
Vote AFTYN BEHN !
(sound)
DAY 28 NOVEMBER 2O25
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
BLACK FRIDAY
WE AIN'T BUYING IT
BRAVO TO YOU
KEEPYOUR POWER WORKING NOW THRU CYBER MONDAY
Shout out toTENNESSEE
You in TN07
AFTYN BEHN in ruby red district....SHE is only 2 points away
Vote AFTYN BEHN !
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
(sound)
DAY 28 NOVEMBER 2O25
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
BLACK FRIDAY
WE AIN'T BUYING IT
BRAVO TO YOU
KEEPYOUR POWER WORKING NOW THRU CYBER MONDAY
Shout out toTENNESSEE
You in TN07
AFTYN BEHN in ruby red district....SHE is only 2 points away
Vote AFTYN BEHN !
(sound)
DAY 28 NOVEMBER 2O25
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
BLACK FRIDAY
WE AIN'T BUYING IT
BRAVO TO YOU
KEEPYOUR POWER WORKING NOW THRU CYBER MONDAY
Shout out toTENNESSEE
You in TN07
AFTYN BEHN in ruby red district....SHE is only 2 points away
Vote AFTYN BEHN !
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Please open this 2-post thread and repost each post:
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Please donate to AFTYN BEHN and help her keep her ads going. TN-07 special election on Dec 2nd. She has a very good chance of flipping this deep red congressional seat.
I just donated to AFTYN BEHN. Hope you will join me.
Www.aftynforcongress.com
Follow and amplify @aftynbehn.bsky.social
I just donated to AFTYN BEHN. Hope you will join me.
Www.aftynforcongress.com
Follow and amplify @aftynbehn.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Please open this 2-post thread and repost each post:
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I like these suggestions from @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for Giving Tuesday - immigrants rights organizations -
*Immigrant Defenders Law Center
*National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Out of gift articles for the month - if someone can post a gift link in replies, grateful 🙏
*Immigrant Defenders Law Center
*National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Out of gift articles for the month - if someone can post a gift link in replies, grateful 🙏
Opinion | Give to Groups Defending Immigrants From ICE
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I like these suggestions from @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for Giving Tuesday - immigrants rights organizations -
*Immigrant Defenders Law Center
*National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Out of gift articles for the month - if someone can post a gift link in replies, grateful 🙏
*Immigrant Defenders Law Center
*National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Out of gift articles for the month - if someone can post a gift link in replies, grateful 🙏
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
What @patrickluck.bsky.social says x 1000. Despite slurs & hate for every immigrant group throughout our history - based on country of origin, religion, or color of skin, the promise of America is - E pluribus unim: “out of many, comes one.”
United we stand, divided we fall. We need more uniting.
United we stand, divided we fall. We need more uniting.
What I always find fascinating about comments like this is that they have been made about literally every immigrant group throughout American history: Germans, Irish, Miller's Jewish ancestors, etc.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
What @patrickluck.bsky.social says x 1000. Despite slurs & hate for every immigrant group throughout our history - based on country of origin, religion, or color of skin, the promise of America is - E pluribus unim: “out of many, comes one.”
United we stand, divided we fall. We need more uniting.
United we stand, divided we fall. We need more uniting.
If you live in TN-07 or know someone who does - do you have a plan to vote/remind them to vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social?
If you have time between now and Tuesday, help GOTV - let’s fill the seat with someone wants to make our lives more secure and just - economically and physically.
If you have time between now and Tuesday, help GOTV - let’s fill the seat with someone wants to make our lives more secure and just - economically and physically.
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If you live in TN-07 or know someone who does - do you have a plan to vote/remind them to vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social?
If you have time between now and Tuesday, help GOTV - let’s fill the seat with someone wants to make our lives more secure and just - economically and physically.
If you have time between now and Tuesday, help GOTV - let’s fill the seat with someone wants to make our lives more secure and just - economically and physically.
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We can do this ALL YEAR.
Cannot emphasize this enough.
If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.
Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.
Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We can do this ALL YEAR.
On this day of gratitude I share with you some who inspire and give me hope that we will break bread across communities and lift each other up to build a better tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving!
With Giving Tuesday soon, reply with donation links for community-based orgs you know.
go.bsky.app/SC9gLjD
With Giving Tuesday soon, reply with donation links for community-based orgs you know.
go.bsky.app/SC9gLjD
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
On this day of gratitude I share with you some who inspire and give me hope that we will break bread across communities and lift each other up to build a better tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving!
With Giving Tuesday soon, reply with donation links for community-based orgs you know.
go.bsky.app/SC9gLjD
With Giving Tuesday soon, reply with donation links for community-based orgs you know.
go.bsky.app/SC9gLjD
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Make sure that home depot knows that we find it absolutely unacceptable that they would allow ICE to abduct & torture their own customers.
AND THAT THEY SAY NOTHING ABOUT #ICELawlessness!
#WeAintBuyingIt
AND THAT THEY SAY NOTHING ABOUT #ICELawlessness!
#WeAintBuyingIt
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Make sure that home depot knows that we find it absolutely unacceptable that they would allow ICE to abduct & torture their own customers.
AND THAT THEY SAY NOTHING ABOUT #ICELawlessness!
#WeAintBuyingIt
AND THAT THEY SAY NOTHING ABOUT #ICELawlessness!
#WeAintBuyingIt
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This Black Friday weekend, I’m skipping Amazon, Target, and Home Depot and shifting my spending to the people building real community.
What local businesses are you supporting instead? Tag them—I want to help boost as many as possible.
youtube.com/shorts/tux7s...
What local businesses are you supporting instead? Tag them—I want to help boost as many as possible.
youtube.com/shorts/tux7s...
Boycott Target, Amazon, and Home Depot from Black Friday to Cyber Monday! Leave small business below
YouTube video by Eliza Orlins
youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
This Black Friday weekend, I’m skipping Amazon, Target, and Home Depot and shifting my spending to the people building real community.
What local businesses are you supporting instead? Tag them—I want to help boost as many as possible.
youtube.com/shorts/tux7s...
What local businesses are you supporting instead? Tag them—I want to help boost as many as possible.
youtube.com/shorts/tux7s...
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George W Bush’s administration found lawyers to justify torturing prisoners
Now Trump found lawyers to justify murdering fisherman they say are smuggling drugs
This is why Mark Kelly and his colleagues made the video telling troops to follow only legal orders
And why Trump threatened to kill them
Now Trump found lawyers to justify murdering fisherman they say are smuggling drugs
This is why Mark Kelly and his colleagues made the video telling troops to follow only legal orders
And why Trump threatened to kill them
November 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
George W Bush’s administration found lawyers to justify torturing prisoners
Now Trump found lawyers to justify murdering fisherman they say are smuggling drugs
This is why Mark Kelly and his colleagues made the video telling troops to follow only legal orders
And why Trump threatened to kill them
Now Trump found lawyers to justify murdering fisherman they say are smuggling drugs
This is why Mark Kelly and his colleagues made the video telling troops to follow only legal orders
And why Trump threatened to kill them
Reposted by Susan Lauer
While I don’t believe the conspiracy theories that Trump is a Russian asset, it’s obvious Trump defers to Putin-whether it’s due to kompromat, cowardice, ignorance or mere admiration for tyrants
Plus he probably doesn’t care what happens to Ukraine or Russia
He just wants credit for ending the war
Plus he probably doesn’t care what happens to Ukraine or Russia
He just wants credit for ending the war
If the 28-point plan came from Russia and somehow ended up in the hands of U.S. lawmakers, then we don’t have a “leak” problem we have a foreign influence problem. And anyone downplaying that should not be anywhere near national security decisions.
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
While I don’t believe the conspiracy theories that Trump is a Russian asset, it’s obvious Trump defers to Putin-whether it’s due to kompromat, cowardice, ignorance or mere admiration for tyrants
Plus he probably doesn’t care what happens to Ukraine or Russia
He just wants credit for ending the war
Plus he probably doesn’t care what happens to Ukraine or Russia
He just wants credit for ending the war
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Are all politicians the same?
Not one Republican lawmaker is standing up for the Constitution, for due process & for human rights.
It's only Democratic lawmakers standing up for democracy, for rule of law & against #ICELawlessness, injustice & corruption.
Let your kids know there is a difference!
Not one Republican lawmaker is standing up for the Constitution, for due process & for human rights.
It's only Democratic lawmakers standing up for democracy, for rule of law & against #ICELawlessness, injustice & corruption.
Let your kids know there is a difference!
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Are all politicians the same?
Not one Republican lawmaker is standing up for the Constitution, for due process & for human rights.
It's only Democratic lawmakers standing up for democracy, for rule of law & against #ICELawlessness, injustice & corruption.
Let your kids know there is a difference!
Not one Republican lawmaker is standing up for the Constitution, for due process & for human rights.
It's only Democratic lawmakers standing up for democracy, for rule of law & against #ICELawlessness, injustice & corruption.
Let your kids know there is a difference!
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Good morning everyone
Mayor Elect Mamdani wanted a photo of himself in front of the FDR Portrait in the Whitehouse...
But Trump had to be included
Of course !!
But FDR is rolling over in his grave
Trump has no clue nor does he care of who FDR was or WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED
Mayor Elect Mamdani wanted a photo of himself in front of the FDR Portrait in the Whitehouse...
But Trump had to be included
Of course !!
But FDR is rolling over in his grave
Trump has no clue nor does he care of who FDR was or WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Good morning everyone
Mayor Elect Mamdani wanted a photo of himself in front of the FDR Portrait in the Whitehouse...
But Trump had to be included
Of course !!
But FDR is rolling over in his grave
Trump has no clue nor does he care of who FDR was or WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED
Mayor Elect Mamdani wanted a photo of himself in front of the FDR Portrait in the Whitehouse...
But Trump had to be included
Of course !!
But FDR is rolling over in his grave
Trump has no clue nor does he care of who FDR was or WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED
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The apparent normalizing of political and hate violence terrifies me. Be safe everyone. Be kind.
The apparent normalizing of political and hate violence terrifies me. Be safe everyone. Be kind.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (@repjasminecrockett)
Statement from Rep. Crockett on Threat at D.C. Office
substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
substack.com/@repjasminec...
The apparent normalizing of political and hate violence terrifies me. Be safe everyone. Be kind.
The apparent normalizing of political and hate violence terrifies me. Be safe everyone. Be kind.
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Republicans always cause economic downturns & Trump created the biggest since the Great Depression in his 1st term.
Now we're headed for another economic collapse.
He is the worse leader our country has ever had.
#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
Tell friends & family about Trump's incompetence & cruelty.
Now we're headed for another economic collapse.
He is the worse leader our country has ever had.
#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
Tell friends & family about Trump's incompetence & cruelty.
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Republicans always cause economic downturns & Trump created the biggest since the Great Depression in his 1st term.
Now we're headed for another economic collapse.
He is the worse leader our country has ever had.
#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
Tell friends & family about Trump's incompetence & cruelty.
Now we're headed for another economic collapse.
He is the worse leader our country has ever had.
#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
Tell friends & family about Trump's incompetence & cruelty.
Are we great yet? #TrumpCrushesYourDreams
Trump’s anti-vaxers may soon end the U.S. status as having eliminated measles. The CDC has confirmed 1,723 cases this year. Countries lose their elimination status, which we’ve held for 25 years, after 12 months of sustained transmission. The U.S., will reach that deadline at the end of 01/2026.
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Are we great yet? #TrumpCrushesYourDreams
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Oregon National Guard General Alan Gronewold:
“Yes, if you give an order that directs a soldier to commit a criminal act, they should disobey that."
The only person who thinks the contrary is a 34-count convicted felon, who wouldn't pay himself for the crime committed by the soldier.
“Yes, if you give an order that directs a soldier to commit a criminal act, they should disobey that."
The only person who thinks the contrary is a 34-count convicted felon, who wouldn't pay himself for the crime committed by the soldier.
November 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Oregon National Guard General Alan Gronewold:
“Yes, if you give an order that directs a soldier to commit a criminal act, they should disobey that."
The only person who thinks the contrary is a 34-count convicted felon, who wouldn't pay himself for the crime committed by the soldier.
“Yes, if you give an order that directs a soldier to commit a criminal act, they should disobey that."
The only person who thinks the contrary is a 34-count convicted felon, who wouldn't pay himself for the crime committed by the soldier.
What’s the old saying - “We need a pitcher, not a belly-itcher?”
We need a functional, humane immigration policy, not a hate-filled, immoral sh*t show.
Time for Democrats to lean-in to this fight.
lorellapraeli.substack.com/p/republican...
We need a functional, humane immigration policy, not a hate-filled, immoral sh*t show.
Time for Democrats to lean-in to this fight.
lorellapraeli.substack.com/p/republican...
Republicans Want to Slash Legal Immigration. Democrats Should Welcome that Fight.
Over the last few days, a prominent Republican member of Congress proposed legislation that would freeze all legal immigration. It’s a message that was echoed by a former Republican presidential candi...
lorellapraeli.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
What’s the old saying - “We need a pitcher, not a belly-itcher?”
We need a functional, humane immigration policy, not a hate-filled, immoral sh*t show.
Time for Democrats to lean-in to this fight.
lorellapraeli.substack.com/p/republican...
We need a functional, humane immigration policy, not a hate-filled, immoral sh*t show.
Time for Democrats to lean-in to this fight.
lorellapraeli.substack.com/p/republican...
This from the same Administration who blackmailed universities and cut off billions of dollars in research funding because it is all about fighting anti-semitism?
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This from the same Administration who blackmailed universities and cut off billions of dollars in research funding because it is all about fighting anti-semitism?
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Reminder - all the people in the video did was remind the military that it is their duty to refuse ILLEGAL orders. That's what the UCMJ and Constitution require. That's like saying they should remember to breath.
They did nothing wrong.
The President can't say the same.
They did nothing wrong.
The President can't say the same.
When a sitting president calls for death to lawmakers, it’s not a warning sign, it’s the emergency siren. He is talking like a dictator and telling you exactly how he plans to use his power.
This is how democracies fall and how dictatorships begin.
This is how democracies fall and how dictatorships begin.
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Reminder - all the people in the video did was remind the military that it is their duty to refuse ILLEGAL orders. That's what the UCMJ and Constitution require. That's like saying they should remember to breath.
They did nothing wrong.
The President can't say the same.
They did nothing wrong.
The President can't say the same.
Reposted by Susan Lauer
Read the joint statement from myself, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Representatives Jason Crow (D-CO-06), Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH-02), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-06):
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Read the joint statement from myself, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Representatives Jason Crow (D-CO-06), Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH-02), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-06):