Lisa M.
@lisaem.bsky.social
Recovering introvert - ran for town council 2025. Lost in a rural area but made a good showing for the 1st slate of Dems in decades.
Maxing out retirement!
🐦 Birder
Library supporter
Delivering hot meals to the home bound
Mother of twin millennial guys
Maxing out retirement!
🐦 Birder
Library supporter
Delivering hot meals to the home bound
Mother of twin millennial guys
Pinned
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I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.
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I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
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Speaker Johnson: Federal employees aren’t being paid. Nutrition cuts may cause children to go hungry. Millions are seeing their health premiums soar.
End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.
End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.
November 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Speaker Johnson: Federal employees aren’t being paid. Nutrition cuts may cause children to go hungry. Millions are seeing their health premiums soar.
End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.
End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.
The day began with a cloud free sky - those rising wisps are the heat leaving the water for the season. Goodbye, summer.
October 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The day began with a cloud free sky - those rising wisps are the heat leaving the water for the season. Goodbye, summer.
This is heart breaking. Doesn't anyone at ICE review these cases?
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This is heart breaking. Doesn't anyone at ICE review these cases?
Another beautiful sunset.
October 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Another beautiful sunset.
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Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.
Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.
Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
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The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
September 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
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"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t
Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.
www.theatlantic.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.
September 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.
Wrapping up the day with a photo from earlier.
September 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Wrapping up the day with a photo from earlier.
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Let’s say it plain: the Supreme Court of the United States endorsed racial profiling today.
September 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Let’s say it plain: the Supreme Court of the United States endorsed racial profiling today.
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Any Senators here?
I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise.
RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably.
He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably.
He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably.
1/
I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise.
RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably.
He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably.
He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably.
1/
September 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Any Senators here?
I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise.
RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably.
He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably.
He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably.
1/
I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise.
RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably.
He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably.
He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably.
1/
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Republican cuts to Medicaid and SNAP won’t just hurt middle-class families—they’ll tank our economy.
Soon, we’ll lose:
➡️ 1.2 million jobs
➡️ $12.2 billion for state and local budgets
Plus, more expensive health care and food.
All for tax cuts billionaires don't need.
Soon, we’ll lose:
➡️ 1.2 million jobs
➡️ $12.2 billion for state and local budgets
Plus, more expensive health care and food.
All for tax cuts billionaires don't need.
September 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Republican cuts to Medicaid and SNAP won’t just hurt middle-class families—they’ll tank our economy.
Soon, we’ll lose:
➡️ 1.2 million jobs
➡️ $12.2 billion for state and local budgets
Plus, more expensive health care and food.
All for tax cuts billionaires don't need.
Soon, we’ll lose:
➡️ 1.2 million jobs
➡️ $12.2 billion for state and local budgets
Plus, more expensive health care and food.
All for tax cuts billionaires don't need.
September 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is.
This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
August 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is.
This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
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US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally
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Denmark summons US envoy over Greenland reports – DW – 08/27/2025
Denmark has summoned the US head of mission in Copenhagen over alleged covert US influence efforts in Greenland. The move comes after US President Donald Trump said he wanted the island — and even hin...
amp.dw.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally
amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...
amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...
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Everything in this event has been sycophantic nonsense and officials lying repeatedly about what's happening in DC, but this part is actually newsworthy. Trump is saying he intends to send the National Guard to other cities after LA and DC. Not hypothetically.
Trump on DC: "We haven't had to bring in the regular military, which we're willing to do if we have to. And after we do this, we'll go to another location and we'll make it safe also ... Chicago is a mess. And we'll straighten that one out probably next"
August 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Everything in this event has been sycophantic nonsense and officials lying repeatedly about what's happening in DC, but this part is actually newsworthy. Trump is saying he intends to send the National Guard to other cities after LA and DC. Not hypothetically.
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this is why i tell people to try ready-to-wear first. custom is risky bc you can be out here railing against "white hippies and communists," but your tailor has you looking crazy without a breast pocket.
August 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
this is why i tell people to try ready-to-wear first. custom is risky bc you can be out here railing against "white hippies and communists," but your tailor has you looking crazy without a breast pocket.
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📌Consider where we are in our nation's history: European prime ministers and presidents are urgently flying into the United States to oppose the actions of its unstable authoritarian leader.
August 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
📌Consider where we are in our nation's history: European prime ministers and presidents are urgently flying into the United States to oppose the actions of its unstable authoritarian leader.
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This, of course, comes after Tim Cook personally donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund.
Since then Apple has received tariff exemptions.
We're witnessing blatant crony capitalism. www.theverge.com/news/737757/...
Since then Apple has received tariff exemptions.
We're witnessing blatant crony capitalism. www.theverge.com/news/737757/...
Apple made a 24k gold and glass statue for Donald Trump
Another tactic from Tim Cook to charm the president.
www.theverge.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This, of course, comes after Tim Cook personally donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund.
Since then Apple has received tariff exemptions.
We're witnessing blatant crony capitalism. www.theverge.com/news/737757/...
Since then Apple has received tariff exemptions.
We're witnessing blatant crony capitalism. www.theverge.com/news/737757/...