Lori Lou Freshwater
@lorifreshwater.bsky.social
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Writer and journalist who apparently may or may not be notable. Writing on DoD environmental contamination and suing the United States government. I have no hobbies. Signal: LoriLou.33 Loriloufreshwater@protonmail
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lorifreshwater.bsky.social
The singular reason we are going to call it a constitutional crisis until the coup his complete is that Americans have become so fear-ridden they cannot conceive of losing a life’s worth of material gains.
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simmcewen.bsky.social
Seagull looks pretty happy with the crab in its beak! #birdoftheday #birds #photography #nature #PNW
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
get in losers we're repenting
judah-grunstein.bsky.social
Liberation theology in the USA. More please.
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jysexton.bsky.social
The brutal and repulsive content being out by the fascist regime isn’t just propaganda, it’s creating ready-made and easily-shareable materials for intimidation and stochastic terrorism.
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
At some point, a Democrat, somewhere, is going to have to exert operational control over their own law enforcement officers and leverage them to protect their *own* residents instead of protecting federal agents
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jamellebouie.net
really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people
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npr.org
NPR @npr.org · 2h
EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.
Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on
Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.
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lorifreshwater.bsky.social
It’s a great time to make Dorothy Day a Saint.
friede.bsky.social
An early solace was Paul Ellie’s THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN: AN AMERICAN PILGRIMAGE — mostly for its reminder that Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, & Flannery O’Connor were connected to the ground I now navigated, lived messy & vital lives of faith in times of great change.
The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie | Moon Palace Books
WINNER OF THE PEN/MARTHA ALBRAND AWARD FOR FIRST NONFICTIONFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC AND SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLETho...
moonpalacebooks.com
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friede.bsky.social
I cannot tell you what this moment means to me as someone who had to hunt to find the social justice Catholics when I moved here — despite the deep roots all around me, blood within living memory.

I’m starting to hear it from my students too, which is monumental ‘round here.
rahaeli.bsky.social
It's been really, really nice seeing the Catholic social justice tradition in the US feel like it's empowered to spread its wings again without risking censure after a long time of being suppressed by US Catholic leadership, and it's exactly what I was hoping for from Pope Bob.
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
Up to this point, Governor Pritzker has said all the right things. If they're not backed up with action — specifically, control of your own law enforcement organization — then they were wasted breath.
noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
Illinois State Police issue a final warning to disperse from in front of the Broadview ICE facility, a full 20 minutes before the protest curfew time.
lorifreshwater.bsky.social
Oh, honey, you just wait to see regular people’s bank accounts in six months and know that anger.
ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
Marjorie Taylor Greene on Trump's tariffs: "It's bumpy. I'm talking to major manufacturing companies that are saying...'We're having problems with these tariffs.  And now we're having problems, we can't get supplies'...There's problems."
lorifreshwater.bsky.social
I’m not sure they have the capacity to be truly happy, if that helps :)
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
It's utterly devastating to see decades of progress for the disability community being wiped out in just a few months.

There was of course much work to be done, but now that effort will have to be devoted to clawing back the gains now being ripped away.
lollardfish.bsky.social
The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
lorifreshwater.bsky.social
Post an image from your summer that confers peace.

My magical lil forest
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nurbsy.bsky.social
Smurfs real. I can’t talk more right now but smurfs are real
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
I’m wondering at what point most people in this country are going to realize that the legislative branch has been wholly destroyed in plain sight and that when the heritage folks laid out executive unitary power they were actually talking about ending Congress and the judiciary openly.
kjephd.bsky.social
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.
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whatashrinkthinks.com
I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability

we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons