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Lara Lakshmi

@laralakshmi.bsky.social

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Brown American mom and artist. Formerly an engineer with a Ph.D., now steeped in anti-fascist studies, art, and living on the edge.

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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · Nov 13

My daughter was a newly minted lawyer on the Michigan Harris team. She moved to Detroit from NYC, registered to vote there, and worked insanely hard for a Harris win. This has been a crushing week for my whole family.

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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 15h

Portland is too messy to mess with. Trump will learn.

Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 10d

Free speech is only for American men.

Mahmoud Khalil should have shaved and changed his name long ago, plus stopped blabbing about Palestine (it doesn’t even exist) … if he wanted to not be deported from America. #sarcasm but not really.

A tweet comparing liberal America’s response to curtailing the free speech of Mahmoud Khalil versus Jimmy Kimmel.

Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 13d

Trump is crazy like a fox.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 13d

Hey Vladimir, release the Epstein files!

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They See Blue @theyseeblue.org · 13d

Grandmother living in the USA for 3 Decades Deported to India #ICE
tinyurl.com/harjitkaurdeported

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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 15d

All of the above.

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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 15d

Disney is smart. They know those that are left after the Kimmel boycott are loyal to them and can tolerate a price increase.

Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 17d

And now, politicians, corporations, media and six Supreme Court justices are all owned by the same billionaires.

It’s impossible to overturn Citizens United without an actual revolution.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 17d

Teach every young person you know how to recognize people with true empathy – as well as how others who feign empathy in order to manipulate. You will save them heartache, years of suffering, and perhaps their lives.

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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 20d

F that Zionist.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24d

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 25d

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27d

AOC: Whether it is a member of congress, whether it is the President to assume and assert and cast blame when the FBI has failed to even apprehend the assailant, is absolutely an irresponsible action.

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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 29d

Schumer and Jeffries are the face of the Democratic Party, and they’re both punchable.

Want to rescue the DNC? Ask them to show daylight. Ask them to call in Chuck and Hakeem! 😏

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29d

Protestors chant
FREE DC
FREE PALESTINE
TRUMP IS THE HITLER OF OUR TIME

To Trump, Vance, and Hegseth

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29d

“It’s not his signature” is the new “the election was stolen”

A loyalty test

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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 29d

Are you on DNC payroll or retainer?

Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 29d

Schumer and Jeffries are the face of the Democratic Party, and they’re both punchable.

Want to rescue the DNC? Ask them to show daylight. Ask them to call in Chuck and Hakeem! 😏

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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 29d

Vomit

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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · Sep 3

America committing terrorist acts. Summary justice. Business as usual.

Were there women and kids on the vessel?

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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · Sep 3

Trump means Woody Allen, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime Manhattan neighbor?

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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 29d

Republicans are pretending adults don’t know how signatures look or change with time. They’re trying to annihilate truth and replace it with their evil stupidity.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29d

This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people.

Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it.

We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.

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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · Sep 5

Amy Coney Barrett just proved she’s unqualified to sit on that Court.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Sep 5

Spencer Kuvin, Epstein's victims' lawyer, says the FBI interviewed 40+ girls, some just 14, and prepared a 54-count indictment. Then came the secret plea deal that let Epstein walk. Those interviews are in the files. Kuvin says Alan Dershowitz scoured the girls' MySpace pages to smear them as liars.

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