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Lisa Gets Politik

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Academic and union leader interested in how games can help change the world. Twitter sucks. We can and must do better for our earth. Oh, and it must be […] [bridged from https://union.place/@lisagetspolitik on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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Lisa Gets Politik @lisagetspolitik.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 5h

South Shore Children's Chorus makes beautiful music with purpose.

This famine song is heart wrenching.

https://youtu.be/DacXJ5dsWEc

#music
#musicwomenwednesday

Lisa Gets Politik @lisagetspolitik.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Jimmy Kimmel asked people to post videos to YouTube from cities across the US where Trump is sending National Guard Troops to QUELL INSURECTION, and to tag these videos #showmeyourhellhole

https://youtu.be/6MPSa-9NOow

#USPol

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 9h

So let's say you want to protest (1st Amendment right, so far) in my town. The typical protest zone is the corner of Lynn Road and West Hillcrest Drive. Outlined in red in the diagram below. If you drive there (getting off from the 101N to Lynn Road), you are now […]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

CHICAGO—People are marching in the streets to protest Donald Trump’s federal invasion and the aggressive harassment of citizens.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 9h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

(This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

“Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?”

TRUMP: “Suspending who?” 🤷🏼

Aaand scene.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

😕

Here’s the video again: www.instagram.com/reel/DPi9m_2...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Wow — Harvard Crimson student newspaper busts Hegseth for having written a long policy brief touting diversity before he joined Trump’s war on DEI.

With receipts. Bravo, Crimson.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Lisa Gets Politik @lisagetspolitik.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Guys! I found a website that tracks Trumps Golf schedule.

https://trumpgolftrack.com/

#USPol
#donaldtrump

Trump Golf Track

Tracking the number of days President Donald Trump spends his second term playing golf.

trumpgolftrack.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

The @guardian publishes the names of Gaza children killed by Israel. 18,457 and growing.

(“Does not include thousands still buried under the rubble”) www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

CHICAGO Mayor Brandon Johnson on Trump calling for him to be jailed: “This president is unstable, unhinged, a threat to our democracy.”

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Lisa Gets Politik @lisagetspolitik.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 15h

SIGN THE PETITION!

Hold Congress Accountable: No Pay or Benefits During Government Shutdowns

https://chng.it/pB9MHTDhRc

#shutdown
#shutdown2025
#donaldtrumpsshutdown
#USPol

Have you seen this petition yet?

Hold Congress Accountable: No Pay or Benefits During Government Shutdowns

www.change.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

282 Ex DOJ officials open letter: “We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it”

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Did the FBI find those photographs? 😶

#pambondi #donaldtrump #epstein

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Lisa Gets Politik @lisagetspolitik.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Ruth Ben-Ghiat warns that we are falling into a dictatorship faster than we realize.

“We’re in what, month nine? There is no equivalent in the speed at which this is happening among 20th-century or 21st-century leaders who came to office via election.”

We’re losing our democracy faster than […]

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RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Yesterday, Sen. Jim Banks tweeted: "The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden administration used a shady privacy formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states. It included illegal immigrants and handed Democrats extra seats."

He should blame Trump because Trump was president in 2020 […]

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Lisa Gets Politik @lisagetspolitik.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The UMass system has already stopped research of pediatric brain cancer because of the Trump administration’s actions.

Why don't Trump supporters care about Cancer Research?

#cancerresearch
#trump
#USPol
#braindrain

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

One major power NOT delegated to the federal government is the general power to keep the peace. That is reserved to the states. Also embedded in U.S. is the principle that the military shall neither occupy the states nor be used for domestic law enforcement. See the 3rd Amendment, prohibiting […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I’ll wind up this thread with a prediction. The lawsuits over Trump’s deployment of federalized Guard troops in Oregon, Illinois, and California are going to come down to whether the Supreme Court is going to let him get away with completely lying about the conditions faced by ICE in Portland […]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Republican Shutdown: Day 6

Via @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva won her election two weeks ago. Republicans refuse to seat her in Congress.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

The irony is Burchett is saying this as Republicans are staying out of Congress to 🦆 duck a vote on the Epstein files — you aren’t protecting kids, Tim, you’re protecting child predators

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

🤷‍♂️

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