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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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The New Deal @thenewdeal.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 1h

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 · 16h

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 · 10h

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 · 23h

📌 Canks isn't gonna be happy

This may stop his heart 🤭🤣🐥

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18h

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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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 17h

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

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14h

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

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Robin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 20h

You know the assignment 👍

It'd be a real shame if this photo of President Obama receiving his Nobel peace prize went viral today, for no particular reason

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Lisa Brooten @lisabrooten.bsky.social · 9h

Stripping our science infrastructure even more. This destruction for what? I mean, seriously.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Lisa Brooten @lisabrooten.bsky.social · 9h

This is straight up fascism.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

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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Lisa Brooten @lisabrooten.bsky.social · 9h

From this sleepy southern town in Illinois, I would say that yes -- people here will protest. As we have been. And of course, they would then call it a riot organized by outsiders - by "domestic terrorists" infiltrating sleepy Southern Illinois. 🙄 It's really pretty predictable at this point, no?

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13h

I love this image.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16h

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

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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Lisa Brooten @lisabrooten.bsky.social · 10h

Says a white boy in pink sunglasses and a big ass cowboy hat 🙄

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.