Emilie Braxten
@embraxten.bsky.social
many things to many people; sister, partner, mom, ally, nature lover, RN, teacher, life-long learner, hiker, fbcwoo fan, pediatric palliative LMT 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ proud woke liberal democrat
Horrifying!
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December 4, 2025
“What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, said.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Horrifying!
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"This is a time for moral clarity.... 'Don't Give Up the Ship!'" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 20, 2025
Trump spent this morning calling a group of military veterans in Congress traitors and saying they “should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.” Their crime, in Trump’s eyes, was their release Tuesday of a v...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Never a helper....
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what the fuck is wrong with this guy?
Donny can't even pretend to care about helping
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November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Never a helper....
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This is an excellent idea!!!
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is an excellent idea!!!
October 18 in DC ❤️🤍💙
October 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
October 18 in DC ❤️🤍💙
I can't even with this administration's chronic disinformation and blatant lies.
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I can't even with this administration's chronic disinformation and blatant lies.
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October 2, 2025
October 2, 2025
At about 1:00 on Tuesday morning, federal agents from Border Patrol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) raided an apartment b...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
October 2, 2025
"a new level of unhinged...."
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September 6, 2025
Today the social media account of President Donald J.
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September 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"a new level of unhinged...."
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Thanks, Jeff. We should all be so outraged.
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shove your thoughts and prayers
we’ve been thinking and praying since Columbine — and it hasn’t done shit
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August 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thanks, Jeff. We should all be so outraged.
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“Things People are Begging for: 1. Cheaper groceries 2. No Medicaid and SNAP cuts 3. Release of the Epstein Files.... Things People are NOT begging for: 1. An authoritarian power grab of major cities.”
- J.B. Pritzker, Illinois governor
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- J.B. Pritzker, Illinois governor
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August 22, 2025
In these last days of August, with Congress on hiatus and the Epstein files looming, the Trump White House appears to be making a big move to consolidate power over the federal government, weaponize i...
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August 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“Things People are Begging for: 1. Cheaper groceries 2. No Medicaid and SNAP cuts 3. Release of the Epstein Files.... Things People are NOT begging for: 1. An authoritarian power grab of major cities.”
- J.B. Pritzker, Illinois governor
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- J.B. Pritzker, Illinois governor
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"A lot of us are swearing a lot more than we used to...." -Gov. Gavin Newsom
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Live with Heather Cox Richardson
A recording from Heather Cox Richardson's live video
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August 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"A lot of us are swearing a lot more than we used to...." -Gov. Gavin Newsom
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August 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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"We the People are the ones who must act to reclaim America."
(Wm. J Barber, II & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove)
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(Wm. J Barber, II & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove)
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Let us not go gently into the night
Half of all Americans who have ever lived are alive right now.
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June 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"We the People are the ones who must act to reclaim America."
(Wm. J Barber, II & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove)
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(Wm. J Barber, II & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove)
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“[i]f some of us can be snatched off the streets... based only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us are safe. Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves. But they do not stop there.”
- Gov Newsom
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- Gov Newsom
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June 10, 2025
Today President Donald J.
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June 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
“[i]f some of us can be snatched off the streets... based only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us are safe. Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves. But they do not stop there.”
- Gov Newsom
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- Gov Newsom
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Unprecedented, indeed!!
In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented.
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
June 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Unprecedented, indeed!!
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On Friday afternoon, thousands of veterans who fought wars on behalf of the United States descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to fight something else: cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
“Veterans are the canary in the coal mine.”
“Veterans are the canary in the coal mine.”
June 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
On Friday afternoon, thousands of veterans who fought wars on behalf of the United States descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to fight something else: cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
“Veterans are the canary in the coal mine.”
“Veterans are the canary in the coal mine.”
"Remigration"...?!!
"'All of it is pretty awful with some pieces that definitely violate existing law and treaties. But institutionalizing neo-Nazi theory as an office in the State Department is the most blatantly horrifying.'"
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"'All of it is pretty awful with some pieces that definitely violate existing law and treaties. But institutionalizing neo-Nazi theory as an office in the State Department is the most blatantly horrifying.'"
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May 30, 2025
In July 2024, according to an article published today by Kirsten Grind and Megan Twohey in the New York Times, billionaire Elon Musk texted privately about his concerns that government investigations ...
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May 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"Remigration"...?!!
"'All of it is pretty awful with some pieces that definitely violate existing law and treaties. But institutionalizing neo-Nazi theory as an office in the State Department is the most blatantly horrifying.'"
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"'All of it is pretty awful with some pieces that definitely violate existing law and treaties. But institutionalizing neo-Nazi theory as an office in the State Department is the most blatantly horrifying.'"
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Trump hates his new nickname TACO so out of respect we made this song! 🌮 🕺🎶
May 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Trump hates his new nickname TACO so out of respect we made this song! 🌮 🕺🎶