Lauren C
@laurenac.bsky.social
#postie#, #expostie# Retired psychologist, aspiring to follow the 8-fold path, emphasis on right speech. Finding joy in the beauty and serenity of our upstate farm. Love all the animals.
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This article is a BANGER and lays out good steps to follow
“I have a sick feeling in my stomach all the time.”
If you feel this way, you’re not alone.
It’s not just political stress. It’s moral and psychic injury. 🧵1/
If you feel this way, you’re not alone.
It’s not just political stress. It’s moral and psychic injury. 🧵1/
The Emotional Toll of Living With Institutional Betrayal - Dame Magazine
What happens to us when institutions protect power instead of people? From Epstein to ICE, institutional betrayal is inflicting trauma and moral injury.
www.damemagazine.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:09 AM
This article is a BANGER and lays out good steps to follow
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Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.
February 5, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.
Brilliant
It is hard to look him in the eye during this.
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Brilliant
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Your tax dollars at work, America. FBI agents working around the clock trying to prove Trump won Georgia in 2020 instead of investigating wealthy fraudsters and con artists because they don't get prosecuted anymore since Trump took office.
February 5, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Your tax dollars at work, America. FBI agents working around the clock trying to prove Trump won Georgia in 2020 instead of investigating wealthy fraudsters and con artists because they don't get prosecuted anymore since Trump took office.
Wow!
Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
January 31, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Wow!
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Judge blocks ICE arrests of Minnesota refugees who were ‘subjected to terror’
Judge blocks ICE arrests of Minnesota refugees who were ‘subjected to terror’
‘At its best, America serves as a haven of individual liberties in a world too often full of tyranny and cruelty. We abandon that ideal when we subject our neighbors to fear and chaos’, wrote District...
www.independent.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Judge blocks ICE arrests of Minnesota refugees who were ‘subjected to terror’
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This is also Alex Pretti's union.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
January 27, 2026 at 3:31 AM
This is also Alex Pretti's union.
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Great piece about a man who was establishing the run.
“Pretti's was a positive masculinity. It was a protective masculinity. His was a masculinity that stood on the side of justice, no matter the cost.”
“Pretti's was a positive masculinity. It was a protective masculinity. His was a masculinity that stood on the side of justice, no matter the cost.”
January 27, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Great piece about a man who was establishing the run.
“Pretti's was a positive masculinity. It was a protective masculinity. His was a masculinity that stood on the side of justice, no matter the cost.”
“Pretti's was a positive masculinity. It was a protective masculinity. His was a masculinity that stood on the side of justice, no matter the cost.”
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The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
January 26, 2026 at 10:56 PM
The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
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Massive anti-impunity protests broke out in more than 70 cities across the US over the weekend; hundreds of thousands of people are calling for the fall of the Trump regime, the arrest of regime officials, and the abolition of ICE.
Chicago, protesting in under -20°. #3E #GoodvsEvil
Chicago, protesting in under -20°. #3E #GoodvsEvil
January 25, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Massive anti-impunity protests broke out in more than 70 cities across the US over the weekend; hundreds of thousands of people are calling for the fall of the Trump regime, the arrest of regime officials, and the abolition of ICE.
Chicago, protesting in under -20°. #3E #GoodvsEvil
Chicago, protesting in under -20°. #3E #GoodvsEvil
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My friend wrote this about Alex. She was his last nursing student. He taught her lessons we all need right now.
Jessica Hauser
I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis.....
www.facebook.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:13 PM
My friend wrote this about Alex. She was his last nursing student. He taught her lessons we all need right now.
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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His name is Liam Ramos and he's five years old.
May the forces of good protect him and his parents.
May they free him soon.
May this family be reunited and returned home safely.
May ICE be defeated, defunded disbanded,
and may justice roll down on the perpetrators
from the heavens like thunder.
May the forces of good protect him and his parents.
May they free him soon.
May this family be reunited and returned home safely.
May ICE be defeated, defunded disbanded,
and may justice roll down on the perpetrators
from the heavens like thunder.
January 22, 2026 at 6:26 AM
His name is Liam Ramos and he's five years old.
May the forces of good protect him and his parents.
May they free him soon.
May this family be reunited and returned home safely.
May ICE be defeated, defunded disbanded,
and may justice roll down on the perpetrators
from the heavens like thunder.
May the forces of good protect him and his parents.
May they free him soon.
May this family be reunited and returned home safely.
May ICE be defeated, defunded disbanded,
and may justice roll down on the perpetrators
from the heavens like thunder.
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The former Democratic strategist Dmitri Mehlhorn has given up on electoral politics—and now he’s using fiction to game out what to do if Trump tries to maintain power with the threat of force, Michael Scherer writes.
Doomsday-Prepping for Trump’s Third Term
Dmitri Mehlhorn has created a fictional world to game out constitutional collapse.
bit.ly
January 22, 2026 at 1:30 PM
The former Democratic strategist Dmitri Mehlhorn has given up on electoral politics—and now he’s using fiction to game out what to do if Trump tries to maintain power with the threat of force, Michael Scherer writes.
They left out earnings from selling pardons.
Everything is getting more expensive for working people, but Trump is abusing his power to make himself at least $1.4 billion richer.
The most corrupt President in American history.
A government of, by, and for the crooks.
The most corrupt President in American history.
A government of, by, and for the crooks.
Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:51 AM
They left out earnings from selling pardons.
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Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
January 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
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Abu Dhabi Dude
@abudhabidude.bsky.social
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I have exactly this thought about the US. Imagine if the US and Russian arsenals were combined.
@abudhabidude.bsky.social
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I have exactly this thought about the US. Imagine if the US and Russian arsenals were combined.
There is nothing bizarre or strange about any of all this if you remember this is all done because it's what Putin wants. He wants the EU and the US gone as super powerful economies.
December 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Abu Dhabi Dude
@abudhabidude.bsky.social
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I have exactly this thought about the US. Imagine if the US and Russian arsenals were combined.
@abudhabidude.bsky.social
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I have exactly this thought about the US. Imagine if the US and Russian arsenals were combined.
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There Is Something Deeply Wrong With Donald Trump—We Must Act Like It
#Pinks
www.commondreams.org/opinion/some...
#Pinks
www.commondreams.org/opinion/some...
There Is Something Deeply Wrong With Donald Trump—We Must Act Like It | Common Dreams
Democracies survive only when citizens decide that character still matters, that truth still matters, that children deserve better examples than tantrums and threats and gold-plated vulgarity.
www.commondreams.org
December 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
There Is Something Deeply Wrong With Donald Trump—We Must Act Like It
#Pinks
www.commondreams.org/opinion/some...
#Pinks
www.commondreams.org/opinion/some...
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In South Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly two dozen neighbors confronted and surrounded ICE goons after rapid-response alerts were issued. The goons were questioning an East African man when the situation escalated, and they eventually left the area without making any arrests.
December 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
In South Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly two dozen neighbors confronted and surrounded ICE goons after rapid-response alerts were issued. The goons were questioning an East African man when the situation escalated, and they eventually left the area without making any arrests.
He understood everything
What freezings have I felt, what days seen!
What old December’s bareness every where!
What old December’s bareness every where!
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
He understood everything
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