tom lagasse
@tlagasse.bsky.social
Writer. 2025 E Ethelbert Miller Prize. Poet Laureate of Bristol, CT. Pro-Democracy. Open Mic Night host.
Getting started in the arts: Getting a jump on change www.bristoledition.org/blog/2025/11...
Getting started in the arts: Getting a jump on change - The Bristol Edition
by Tom Lagasse | Poet laureate of Bristol | Nov. 24, 2025 | On Thanksgiving, the Manchester Road Race will have an estimated 12,000 runners participating in the annual five-mile...
www.bristoledition.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Getting started in the arts: Getting a jump on change www.bristoledition.org/blog/2025/11...
Reposted by tom lagasse
SNAP benefits expire in one week.
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
SNAP benefits expire in one week.
Reposted by tom lagasse
ICE in Portland: “Dear God, they’re Jazzercising in formation! Light ‘em up!”
October 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
ICE in Portland: “Dear God, they’re Jazzercising in formation! Light ‘em up!”
Reposted by tom lagasse
The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”
October 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”
Reposted by tom lagasse
This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.
Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator
Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator
October 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.
Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator
Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator
Reposted by tom lagasse
The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.
Let that sink in
Let that sink in
October 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.
Let that sink in
Let that sink in
Reposted by tom lagasse
Secretary Pete Hegseth's new facial hair grooming standards are discriminatory against troops who can't shave for religious reasons and Black and Brown people, who are more likely to have skin conditions that make shaving difficult and painful.
US Army unveils new grooming policy
Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, initiated a militarywide review of standards earlier this year.
www.newsweek.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Secretary Pete Hegseth's new facial hair grooming standards are discriminatory against troops who can't shave for religious reasons and Black and Brown people, who are more likely to have skin conditions that make shaving difficult and painful.
And he's the enemy...
This is not going anywhere good. www.thebulwark.com/p/its-a-war-...
September 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
And he's the enemy...
Reposted by tom lagasse
The GOP SHUTDOWN of the federal government will:
🚨Skyrocket costs
🚨Screw up essential services
🚨Abandon disaster victims
🚨Make everyday life even WORSE for Americans
This is America after nine months of Donald Trump.
🚨Skyrocket costs
🚨Screw up essential services
🚨Abandon disaster victims
🚨Make everyday life even WORSE for Americans
This is America after nine months of Donald Trump.
September 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The GOP SHUTDOWN of the federal government will:
🚨Skyrocket costs
🚨Screw up essential services
🚨Abandon disaster victims
🚨Make everyday life even WORSE for Americans
This is America after nine months of Donald Trump.
🚨Skyrocket costs
🚨Screw up essential services
🚨Abandon disaster victims
🚨Make everyday life even WORSE for Americans
This is America after nine months of Donald Trump.
Reposted by tom lagasse
September 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by tom lagasse
Ronald Reagan–appointed U.S. District Judge William Young:
“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence… To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”
“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence… To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”
September 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Ronald Reagan–appointed U.S. District Judge William Young:
“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence… To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”
“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence… To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”
Reposted by tom lagasse
Google's YouTube will pay Trump $24.5m for suspending his account re J6. $22m of it will go to constructing the $200m WH ballroom.
Meta will pay $25m over FB & IG Trump J6 suspensions. X paid $10m, which Trump called 'a big discount.'
Meta will pay $25m over FB & IG Trump J6 suspensions. X paid $10m, which Trump called 'a big discount.'
YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension
YouTube is the latest social media company to pay Trump tens of millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits brought before he returned to power. The money will fund a new ballroom at the White House.
www.npr.org
September 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Google's YouTube will pay Trump $24.5m for suspending his account re J6. $22m of it will go to constructing the $200m WH ballroom.
Meta will pay $25m over FB & IG Trump J6 suspensions. X paid $10m, which Trump called 'a big discount.'
Meta will pay $25m over FB & IG Trump J6 suspensions. X paid $10m, which Trump called 'a big discount.'
Reposted by tom lagasse
FYI. If the Govt shuts down, everyone stays in town including the president but you’re just bored with nothing to do because it’s all messaging and negotiations.
GREAT TIME TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
GREAT TIME TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
September 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
FYI. If the Govt shuts down, everyone stays in town including the president but you’re just bored with nothing to do because it’s all messaging and negotiations.
GREAT TIME TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
GREAT TIME TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
Reposted by tom lagasse
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
Reposted by tom lagasse
“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
September 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
Reposted by tom lagasse
Reposted by tom lagasse
I’m still processing what happened this morning.
Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?
Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?
September 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I’m still processing what happened this morning.
Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?
Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?
Reposted by tom lagasse
Reposted by tom lagasse
THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
September 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
Reposted by tom lagasse
It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.
Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.
But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.
Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.
But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.
September 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.
Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.
But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.
Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.
But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.
Reposted by tom lagasse
One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.
September 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.
Reposted by tom lagasse
Since every Republican in Congress is repeating their false talking point over & over that “Democrats want to shut down the govt to give free healthcare to illegal aliens,” it would be helpful if some Democrats in Congress could address that argument with facts at some point.
September 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Since every Republican in Congress is repeating their false talking point over & over that “Democrats want to shut down the govt to give free healthcare to illegal aliens,” it would be helpful if some Democrats in Congress could address that argument with facts at some point.
Reposted by tom lagasse
Oregon AG Rayfield: I know for a fact, from talking to cities across Oregon, that if you pick up the phone and ask, “What could be helpful?” the answer would not be the United States military.
September 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Oregon AG Rayfield: I know for a fact, from talking to cities across Oregon, that if you pick up the phone and ask, “What could be helpful?” the answer would not be the United States military.