Kate Lavery
@katelavery.bsky.social
When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist - the Norwegian Nobel Committee
We said no, Donald - also the Norwegian Nobel Committee. And Greenland.
We said no, Donald - also the Norwegian Nobel Committee. And Greenland.
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Kate Lavery
@katelavery.bsky.social
· Jan 31
Trump's America: Erasing fairness, leadership, compassion, diversity, integrity, emotional maturity, and stability.
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Every day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.
January 21, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Every day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.
Mafia don: "I'm not going to have to burn down your shop because I'm confident we're going to come to a nice little understanding about the protection money I told you I needed"
Media: "Mafia don says he won't burn down neighborhood store."
Media: "Mafia don says he won't burn down neighborhood store."
January 21, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Mafia don: "I'm not going to have to burn down your shop because I'm confident we're going to come to a nice little understanding about the protection money I told you I needed"
Media: "Mafia don says he won't burn down neighborhood store."
Media: "Mafia don says he won't burn down neighborhood store."
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DOGE Employees Shared Social Security Data, Court Filing Shows
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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I think it’s bad that the Speaker of the House has been in a sensory deprivation tank since roughly 2015 and only emerges to get yelled at in the hallway outside of the tank.
Mike Johnson tells me that he hasn’t seen Trump saying in Davos “what we have gotten out of NATO is nothing”
January 21, 2026 at 3:50 PM
I think it’s bad that the Speaker of the House has been in a sensory deprivation tank since roughly 2015 and only emerges to get yelled at in the hallway outside of the tank.
Trump is in closed-door meetings now with foreign leaders. Who's brave enough to give him a bloody nose?
January 21, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Trump is in closed-door meetings now with foreign leaders. Who's brave enough to give him a bloody nose?
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Right on cue, here are the push alerts from the 3 major newspapers lmao
January 21, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Right on cue, here are the push alerts from the 3 major newspapers lmao
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There is a line in the book “Is Paris Burning?” where General Dietrich von Choltitz, who disobeyed the order to destroy the city, says, “Hitler is mad. Are you blind? Didn’t you see him at Berchtesgaden?” I think you could write a modern version: “Didn’t you see him at Davos?”
January 21, 2026 at 3:10 PM
There is a line in the book “Is Paris Burning?” where General Dietrich von Choltitz, who disobeyed the order to destroy the city, says, “Hitler is mad. Are you blind? Didn’t you see him at Berchtesgaden?” I think you could write a modern version: “Didn’t you see him at Davos?”
I won't use force I mean I could use force I'd be entirely justified in using force and if I did all you losers would be very very sorry but I won't I'll just force you to do my bidding by beating you into submission and then I'll steal your country anyway isn't "Trump says he won't use force"
January 21, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I won't use force I mean I could use force I'd be entirely justified in using force and if I did all you losers would be very very sorry but I won't I'll just force you to do my bidding by beating you into submission and then I'll steal your country anyway isn't "Trump says he won't use force"
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The fact that Trump is even permitted to have a conversation about *whether or not* he will use force shows how degraded the discourse has become. The question should be phrased to ask him why he is seemingly willing to be the aggressor that starts a new world war.
January 21, 2026 at 3:13 PM
The fact that Trump is even permitted to have a conversation about *whether or not* he will use force shows how degraded the discourse has become. The question should be phrased to ask him why he is seemingly willing to be the aggressor that starts a new world war.
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It is not up to the armed forces to put a stop to Trump’s ghastly ideas of war against NATO. The United States is not run by the military, nor should it be. Americans, and their elected representatives, must take this burden away from the armed forces—now.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal
Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:10 PM
It is not up to the armed forces to put a stop to Trump’s ghastly ideas of war against NATO. The United States is not run by the military, nor should it be. Americans, and their elected representatives, must take this burden away from the armed forces—now.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The fact that the people in the audience sat through this instead of getting up and leaving is mind-boggling
Trump: "Somalia -- they turned out to be higher IQ than we thought. I always say, 'These are low IQ people.' How did they go into Minnesota and steal all that money?"
January 21, 2026 at 3:01 PM
The fact that the people in the audience sat through this instead of getting up and leaving is mind-boggling
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stunning, am stunned, like when you hit your head on a doorframe, just stunned
Trump to Davos: "Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German and a little Japanese perhaps. After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it. But how ungrateful are they now?"
January 21, 2026 at 2:13 PM
stunning, am stunned, like when you hit your head on a doorframe, just stunned
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Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.
January 21, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.
I have to mute this it's like Call of Cthulhu level sanity points loss
January 21, 2026 at 2:13 PM
I have to mute this it's like Call of Cthulhu level sanity points loss
What an absolute buffoon.
January 21, 2026 at 2:02 PM
What an absolute buffoon.
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Trump as the hero v. Trump as he is
January 21, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Trump as the hero v. Trump as he is
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SADLY, AFTER A YEAR OF TRUMP 2.0, THIS AGED WELL:
The Wolf Is At The Door open.substack.com/pub/weissman...
The Wolf Is At The Door open.substack.com/pub/weissman...
The Wolf Is At The Door
Watch now | Behind The Headlines With Andrew Weissmann, Vol 2.6.a
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:33 AM
SADLY, AFTER A YEAR OF TRUMP 2.0, THIS AGED WELL:
The Wolf Is At The Door open.substack.com/pub/weissman...
The Wolf Is At The Door open.substack.com/pub/weissman...
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Forgive me for wanting these fucking people to believe in something
People are waving around 50/50 polling on abolish ICE and in the same poll Trump’s is like 30 points under water on affordability. It’s not at all crazy for professional politicians to think there’s a bigger advantage in talking about the latter!
January 21, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Forgive me for wanting these fucking people to believe in something
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You’ll notice the same American state media that relentlessly attacked President Biden over his age as he did good work are normalizing a nearly 80 year old dangerous criminal as he displays clear signs of dementia whilst trying to destroy the world. They have failed humanity.
January 20, 2026 at 11:27 PM
You’ll notice the same American state media that relentlessly attacked President Biden over his age as he did good work are normalizing a nearly 80 year old dangerous criminal as he displays clear signs of dementia whilst trying to destroy the world. They have failed humanity.
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New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
January 20, 2026 at 11:13 PM
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
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Every other video of ICE has these guys pointing tasers and pepper-spraying people recording them. What brain trust decided that body-cams were going to hold ICE accountable?
Absolute garbage.
Call your reps and tell them NO BODY CAMS, NO TRAINING - ICE CANNOT BE "REFORMED." ICE OUT OF OUR CITIES, THEN DEFUND AND ABOLISH ARE THE ONLY OPTIONS.
Find your reps here: reps.fyi
They are giving ICE *MORE* money with these garbage "reforms." More money to HURT US.
Call your reps and tell them NO BODY CAMS, NO TRAINING - ICE CANNOT BE "REFORMED." ICE OUT OF OUR CITIES, THEN DEFUND AND ABOLISH ARE THE ONLY OPTIONS.
Find your reps here: reps.fyi
They are giving ICE *MORE* money with these garbage "reforms." More money to HURT US.
January 20, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Every other video of ICE has these guys pointing tasers and pepper-spraying people recording them. What brain trust decided that body-cams were going to hold ICE accountable?
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It's not debatable that a mentally disturbed person has the nuclear codes. The Republicans know they're endangering us all by leaving him in office. This is a betrayal of every person on Earth. It is a crime against humanity.
January 20, 2026 at 9:13 PM
It's not debatable that a mentally disturbed person has the nuclear codes. The Republicans know they're endangering us all by leaving him in office. This is a betrayal of every person on Earth. It is a crime against humanity.
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sanewashing a brain-rotted lunatic by calling him ‘enigmatic’ and ‘expansive’
January 20, 2026 at 8:10 PM
sanewashing a brain-rotted lunatic by calling him ‘enigmatic’ and ‘expansive’