Lisa Brooten
@lisabrooten.bsky.social
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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Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.
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After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained.
He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
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He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained.
He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
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He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
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American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863.
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
December 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863.
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
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He lives in Fairytale Land!
December 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
He lives in Fairytale Land!
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Agree 💯 With Governor Newsom...
December 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Agree 💯 With Governor Newsom...
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I would like to be adopted, please 🥹
December 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I would like to be adopted, please 🥹
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One of my favorite quotes from him is, “People are dying who have never died before.” I mean, wow! What a revelation! Who would've thought of that before he came along? March 18, 2020—mark that date!
December 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
One of my favorite quotes from him is, “People are dying who have never died before.” I mean, wow! What a revelation! Who would've thought of that before he came along? March 18, 2020—mark that date!
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“He is not unstoppable and you are not without power”
Remind yourself of this every day.
Especially on the bad days.
Remind yourself of this every day.
Especially on the bad days.
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“He is not unstoppable and you are not without power”
Remind yourself of this every day.
Especially on the bad days.
Remind yourself of this every day.
Especially on the bad days.
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What else aren't they wanting us to know?
December 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
What else aren't they wanting us to know?
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I don't think people are really processing the fact that the sitting U.S. President and his team — and maybe the Supreme Court — and maybe half the Congress — want to force us to accept that we should obey the President and not the Constitution.
I don't know what news would be bigger than that.
I don't know what news would be bigger than that.
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I don't think people are really processing the fact that the sitting U.S. President and his team — and maybe the Supreme Court — and maybe half the Congress — want to force us to accept that we should obey the President and not the Constitution.
I don't know what news would be bigger than that.
I don't know what news would be bigger than that.
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I'm getting tired of this President using his platform to verbally abuse and demean people in our country just because he can.
Hey dickhead, try doing your job better instead of focusing on all the 1980s put-downs.
Hey dickhead, try doing your job better instead of focusing on all the 1980s put-downs.
December 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I'm getting tired of this President using his platform to verbally abuse and demean people in our country just because he can.
Hey dickhead, try doing your job better instead of focusing on all the 1980s put-downs.
Hey dickhead, try doing your job better instead of focusing on all the 1980s put-downs.
This is crazy. Literally batshit crazy, isolationist, dangerous.
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is crazy. Literally batshit crazy, isolationist, dangerous.
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BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”
December 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”
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Virginia Hall’s story never gets old- one leg, zero excuses. She outwitted the Gestapo, ran resistance networks, and proved courage beats circumstance every time. Absolute legend of real spycraft. #SpyHistory #WWII #VirginiaHall #spycraft #Espionage www.msn.com/en-us/video/...
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Virginia Hall’s story never gets old- one leg, zero excuses. She outwitted the Gestapo, ran resistance networks, and proved courage beats circumstance every time. Absolute legend of real spycraft. #SpyHistory #WWII #VirginiaHall #spycraft #Espionage www.msn.com/en-us/video/...
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Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."
Priorities...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
December 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Priorities...
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Exactly where are their headquarters?
Oh wait...we know
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
Oh wait...we know
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
December 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Exactly where are their headquarters?
Oh wait...we know
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
Oh wait...we know
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
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The US government is now a mafia organization.
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The US government is now a mafia organization.
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To #All #Democratic #Politicians
Either introduce Articles of #Impeachment and move accordingly and swiftly.
Or
You All will be #voted out as well, and We The People of The United States of America, will start over without you.
Either introduce Articles of #Impeachment and move accordingly and swiftly.
Or
You All will be #voted out as well, and We The People of The United States of America, will start over without you.
December 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
To #All #Democratic #Politicians
Either introduce Articles of #Impeachment and move accordingly and swiftly.
Or
You All will be #voted out as well, and We The People of The United States of America, will start over without you.
Either introduce Articles of #Impeachment and move accordingly and swiftly.
Or
You All will be #voted out as well, and We The People of The United States of America, will start over without you.
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea