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Lisa Brooten

@lisabrooten.bsky.social

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Media watcher, researcher, professor of media studies, change advocate, mother, traveler, questioner, work-in-progress. I contain multitudes (and sometimes contradict myself).

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Lisa Brooten @lisabrooten.bsky.social · Jun 14

June 14th 2025 Carbondale, Illinois represents yet again! This time we had mostly blue skies and just a sprinkling of rain at the very beginning... This one was the biggest one yet! Twice the size of the last one!!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3h

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 7h

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 14h

Truth bomb.💣 I don’t dabble with faith, but if I were to sit through a Christian service, I might consider listening to his. 1/2

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

Inventive People of Portland Dressing as Animals:

Please don't dress as dogs. Your life will not be safe with psychopath Kristi Noem on the rooftops.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Lisa Brooten @lisabrooten.bsky.social · 3h

🤣😂 Chicago restaurants are not serving ICE agents... Solution?

Dolorosa Santos @dolorosasantos.bsky.social · 14h

ICE is having to buy buildings to stage ICE from in Chicago.

Can't ICE buy a McDonald's too?

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Realities 🌐 @insuret.bsky.social · 13h

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 15h

🚨 Do ICE have MRE provisions? Oh, no. That’s a damn shame. All that income and no place to buy a meal. Hey, I know what they can eat… 1/2

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4h

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸
#FuckICE

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 6h

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

Me to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the Comey and James and (probably imminent) Bolton prosecutions

"It doesn’t matter what your politics are. If you say he’s stupid, which he is, if you say he is wrong, which he is, if you say he’s a criminal or sleezy, which he is ... then you’re his enemy.”

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22h

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"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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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 7h

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

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.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

Grab the popcorn.

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The New Deal @thenewdeal.bsky.social · 22h

MAGA is working towards 1 party rule

They're redistricting

SCOTUS is about to kill the Voting Rights Act, giving MAGA 19 more House seats

Doing trial runs with ICE & military in major cities for election day

MAGA ally just bought Dominion Voting Systems

Targeting Dem groups as terror orgs

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Lisa Brooten @lisabrooten.bsky.social · 7h

No. This cannot stand. These officials were elected. ICE was not. These officials are doing their job as allowed/required by law. ICE is breaking the law. This. Must. Stop.

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 22h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 1d

📌 Canks isn't gonna be happy

This may stop his heart 🤭🤣🐥

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Vicious authoritarianism built on a pretext of shameless lies under the cover of scolding Christianity.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Lisa Brooten @lisabrooten.bsky.social · 7h

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful words of truth and solidarity from Council Speaker Adrienne Adams today. We have your back, Tish James.

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