La Pat
@lapaturette.bsky.social
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Multi-national (US, Can, FR); Ally, blue team, kindness matters. Slava Ukraine. 6 multi-lingual grandkids, 3 children, 1 husband (that's enough for me, thanks). Relatives on 4 continents.
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lapaturette.bsky.social
Just made a few changes in my profile, for safety. Thanks to all my followers, and those I follow, for keeping us all informed.
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.
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cwebbonline.com
This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!
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lapaturette.bsky.social
It is insanity - horrible torture for so many completely innocent folks swept up in wrongful 🧊 raffles.
thebulwark.com
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
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pawbaby2.bsky.social
Zohran Mamdani didn’t hold back. His speech today on Letitia James’s indictment was 🔥 calling it exactly what it is: a political hit job meant to punish those who hold Trump accountable. “If justice can be weaponized against the just, then no one is safe.”

#USDemocracy
#Pinks
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sethabramson.bsky.social
Masks. Armed. No insignia. No names. No warrants. But they will come up to an American citizen on the street and threaten him with arrest for peacefully exercising basic American rights.

I'd challenge historians of the American Revolution to articulate how things were worse than this in April 1775.
In a Chicagoland Suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE agents and a cameraman surround a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demand his ID and they threatene...
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johnsipher.bsky.social
Trump is a crime boss who tries to cow everyone and make them complicit, so he owns them. Our education system cannot give in!
histoftech.bsky.social
The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
lapaturette.bsky.social
What are people coming to? Have they lost all decency?
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brcremer.bsky.social
A Christianity that is known for its cruelty is a Christianity that no longer knows Christ.

"By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." -Jesus
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demguardrails.bsky.social
After 🧊 forcefully detains a Parent during school pick ups/drop offs what’s supposed to happen to children left behind?
lapaturette.bsky.social
They at least need a plan for the children to be taken care of.
demguardrails.bsky.social
After 🧊 forcefully detains a Parent during school pick ups/drop offs what’s supposed to happen to children left behind?
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bri4change.bsky.social
When Dems are accused of fighting AGAINST trump instead of fighting FOR something, just remind them that we are fighting FOR democracy.
And FOR America.
And FOR decency.
And FOR peace & quiet.
And FOR the Constitution.
And FOR the rule of law.
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mike-m1967.bsky.social
#solidarity

The hilarity being produced by the Portland protesters in the face of evil. Is showing the beauty of the human spirit.
Vive la Resistance
lapaturette.bsky.social
Thanks - very important indeed.
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lmacthompson1.bsky.social
I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.
lapaturette.bsky.social
Thanks for that update - good to hear!
lapaturette.bsky.social
Someone needs to have their audio cut off.
abigailspanberger.com
If Winsome Earle-Sears hadn't kept interrupting me, maybe she would have heard what a real plan to make life better for Virginians sounds like.
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kateinkharkiv.bsky.social
Ukrainian teacher lets kids sleep through morning lessons after the night of Russian terror.
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gtconway.bsky.social
“I’m trying to put this delicately,” Perry said. “There has been evidence submitted that the very presence of federal agents, that the way they’re interacting with the populace, is itself the cause of violence.”

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Judge blocks Trump from deploying troops in Illinois for now
Officials in Oregon and Illinois had challenged the Trump administration’s push to dispatch the National Guard in both states.
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