Lisa D Merritt
@lisadmerritt.bsky.social
Liberal in Texas. Recovering academic. Child-free by choice. Pro-Choice. Trying to make a difference
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Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
September 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
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Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
August 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
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It’s all about sending a message. The raid is the message. It’s all about retribution. He is the retribution president. As with troops on our streets, it’s all about normalizing fascism. This is fascism. Fascism is here. Too many Americans are too “busy” to care. But it’s here.
August 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It’s all about sending a message. The raid is the message. It’s all about retribution. He is the retribution president. As with troops on our streets, it’s all about normalizing fascism. This is fascism. Fascism is here. Too many Americans are too “busy” to care. But it’s here.
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I deeply resent having to defend John Bolton but “the president sends his goons on a fishing expedition to raid anyone who criticizes him” is in fact very alarming
August 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I deeply resent having to defend John Bolton but “the president sends his goons on a fishing expedition to raid anyone who criticizes him” is in fact very alarming
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If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear
Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
August 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear
Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
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What most don't get is: Fascism isn't a political system.
You can't debate it, or vote it out.
Fascism is the destruction of politics. This is why you can't use the political system it is destroying to stop it.
You can't debate it, or vote it out.
Fascism is the destruction of politics. This is why you can't use the political system it is destroying to stop it.
July 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
What most don't get is: Fascism isn't a political system.
You can't debate it, or vote it out.
Fascism is the destruction of politics. This is why you can't use the political system it is destroying to stop it.
You can't debate it, or vote it out.
Fascism is the destruction of politics. This is why you can't use the political system it is destroying to stop it.
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History is not "stuff that happened in the past"
History is the explanation for "why are we like this right now?"
It's ongoing. It never ended.
History is the explanation for "why are we like this right now?"
It's ongoing. It never ended.
it’s so important because none of this exists in a vacuum, context is everything!
July 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
History is not "stuff that happened in the past"
History is the explanation for "why are we like this right now?"
It's ongoing. It never ended.
History is the explanation for "why are we like this right now?"
It's ongoing. It never ended.
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The speaker of the Minnesota House, Melissa Hortman is assassinated with numerous other persons by a MAGA gunman whose screed says he wants the GOP to control the legislature. This barely causes a ripple in US media. Trump won't call the survivors to express condolences. Reps boycott her memorial.
June 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The speaker of the Minnesota House, Melissa Hortman is assassinated with numerous other persons by a MAGA gunman whose screed says he wants the GOP to control the legislature. This barely causes a ripple in US media. Trump won't call the survivors to express condolences. Reps boycott her memorial.
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All I want to hear out of Democrats is that we had a deal and no bomb. Then Trump tore it up and he is now putting American lives in danger.
That’s it.
That’s it.
June 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
All I want to hear out of Democrats is that we had a deal and no bomb. Then Trump tore it up and he is now putting American lives in danger.
That’s it.
That’s it.
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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
June 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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Can't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed
May 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Can't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed
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Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington.
April 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington.
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Two headlines in the New York Times today.
April 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
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Here's what bothers me about "breaking news" with this corrupt administration, media reports on it like he's a normal president doing normal presidential things.
I will forever call out the media for normalizing this absolute felon bottom feeder.
I will forever call out the media for normalizing this absolute felon bottom feeder.
April 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Here's what bothers me about "breaking news" with this corrupt administration, media reports on it like he's a normal president doing normal presidential things.
I will forever call out the media for normalizing this absolute felon bottom feeder.
I will forever call out the media for normalizing this absolute felon bottom feeder.
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Clyburn: "People better get serious about this. When he says he's not joking about throwing away the Constitution, which is what he'd have to do to have a third term, and we are not gonna rise up in opposition to that? I think it's time for us all to wake up."
March 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Clyburn: "People better get serious about this. When he says he's not joking about throwing away the Constitution, which is what he'd have to do to have a third term, and we are not gonna rise up in opposition to that? I think it's time for us all to wake up."
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No single scandal is a distraction from another scandal. The totality of the scandals is a distraction from all of them.
That made sense in my head.
That made sense in my head.
March 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
No single scandal is a distraction from another scandal. The totality of the scandals is a distraction from all of them.
That made sense in my head.
That made sense in my head.
One of my early ancestors! The gene for troublemaking women is strong in my family
#ResistanceRoots
#Voices4Victory
Today in history, 1638: Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for opposing the orthodoxy of the established Puritan clergy. More significantly, Hutchinson defied gender norms, daring to presume authority over men and speak her mind in public. /1
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Today in history, 1638: Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for opposing the orthodoxy of the established Puritan clergy. More significantly, Hutchinson defied gender norms, daring to presume authority over men and speak her mind in public. /1
March 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
One of my early ancestors! The gene for troublemaking women is strong in my family
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Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
March 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
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What a front cover...
March 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
What a front cover...
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Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
March 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished