Patrick Larkin
@patrickmlarkin.bsky.social
Husband, Father, Educator, School Administrator, #CrossFit Addict. Passionate about creating equitable schools #DWSC #BLM https://linktr.ee/patrickmlarkin
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The Internet wins again 💀😂😅🤣
July 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Internet wins again 💀😂😅🤣
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"The Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times has obtained a list of more than 700 people who have been detained or appear to be scheduled to be sent to the Florida-run immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz."
Is your family member or client at Alligator Alcatraz? We obtained a list
The Trump and DeSantis administrations have refused to release a roster of detainees, none of whom seem to appear in ICE’s online database.
www.miamiherald.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"The Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times has obtained a list of more than 700 people who have been detained or appear to be scheduled to be sent to the Florida-run immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz."
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We do have a secret police in the United States now. Unidentified agents, without accountability, serving an autocrat and targeting law-abiding people who present no threat.
🚨NEW: When ICE raided a Californian farm yesterday, they snatched & disappeared a disabled US veteran who was in his car.
They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor.
Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is.
(🎥 ABC 7 News)
They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor.
Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is.
(🎥 ABC 7 News)
July 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
We do have a secret police in the United States now. Unidentified agents, without accountability, serving an autocrat and targeting law-abiding people who present no threat.
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Republicans just voted to kill their base. They don't care because they had one assignment: placate the billionaire donors.
It's the rest of us vs. the oligarchy.
The majority vs. the 1%
We need fighters willing to stand up and lead on this.
It's the rest of us vs. the oligarchy.
The majority vs. the 1%
We need fighters willing to stand up and lead on this.
July 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Republicans just voted to kill their base. They don't care because they had one assignment: placate the billionaire donors.
It's the rest of us vs. the oligarchy.
The majority vs. the 1%
We need fighters willing to stand up and lead on this.
It's the rest of us vs. the oligarchy.
The majority vs. the 1%
We need fighters willing to stand up and lead on this.
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On the top of the horror of the Senate bill, another depressing aspect is watching all the Democrats and Democratic groups spring into action with their boilerplate fundraising emails about "fighting back" and "not giving up."
Just complete and total autopilot. No real leadership or inspiration.
Just complete and total autopilot. No real leadership or inspiration.
July 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
On the top of the horror of the Senate bill, another depressing aspect is watching all the Democrats and Democratic groups spring into action with their boilerplate fundraising emails about "fighting back" and "not giving up."
Just complete and total autopilot. No real leadership or inspiration.
Just complete and total autopilot. No real leadership or inspiration.
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Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' is a 1,116-page wrecking ball for America. It dismantles our social safety nets, sells out our future, and lines the pockets of the wealthy. That’s not ‘America First'-it's selling our economy to the highest bidder.
July 1, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' is a 1,116-page wrecking ball for America. It dismantles our social safety nets, sells out our future, and lines the pockets of the wealthy. That’s not ‘America First'-it's selling our economy to the highest bidder.
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Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
July 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
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David is right. What JD Vance is saying is nothing is more important than destroying this country’s basic principles and crash the economy to expel a population he doesn’t like.
There are other options! Ones that actually make this country BETTER, not WORSE.
There are other options! Ones that actually make this country BETTER, not WORSE.
I’ve warned about the nativist mind virus for many years. They’d destroy the economy, bankrupt the government, shred the Constitution, trample our freedoms, and imprison their own people to get what they want: not just mass deportation, but something more like ethnic cleansing
July 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
David is right. What JD Vance is saying is nothing is more important than destroying this country’s basic principles and crash the economy to expel a population he doesn’t like.
There are other options! Ones that actually make this country BETTER, not WORSE.
There are other options! Ones that actually make this country BETTER, not WORSE.
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So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
June 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
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Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
June 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
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Congratulations to Coco Gauff for winning her first French Open title!
We really LOVE this.
We really LOVE this.
June 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Congratulations to Coco Gauff for winning her first French Open title!
We really LOVE this.
We really LOVE this.
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“I will not yield to disrespectful men.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
“I will not yield to disrespectful men.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social
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On this anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s Brown v Board decision, vouchers are expanding rapidly.
“If you look at the history of the segregation movement, they wanted vouchers to prop up segregation academies,” a professor who studies school segregation says. “And now they’re getting vouchers in some of these areas to prop up these schools.”
Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial…
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May 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
On this anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s Brown v Board decision, vouchers are expanding rapidly.
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May 17, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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I interrupt your political discussions with some seriously good remixing that reminds me of the aughts. youtu.be/xYtaBfwpg_k?...
Eminem - LOSE YOURSELF (Sung by 331 Movies!)
YouTube video by The Unusual Suspect
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May 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I interrupt your political discussions with some seriously good remixing that reminds me of the aughts. youtu.be/xYtaBfwpg_k?...
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@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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To be clear: the Trump administration is trying to send migrants to Libya specifically *because* of their gross human rights record - not in spite of it.
They want people to be afraid to come here, so they’re sending them to the worst places they can find.
They want people to be afraid to come here, so they’re sending them to the worst places they can find.
May 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
To be clear: the Trump administration is trying to send migrants to Libya specifically *because* of their gross human rights record - not in spite of it.
They want people to be afraid to come here, so they’re sending them to the worst places they can find.
They want people to be afraid to come here, so they’re sending them to the worst places they can find.
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Whichever way you look at it, trump aint human!
RIP Pope Francis 🙏
RIP Pope Francis 🙏
April 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Whichever way you look at it, trump aint human!
RIP Pope Francis 🙏
RIP Pope Francis 🙏
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“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help.
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
-Pope Francis
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
-Pope Francis
April 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help.
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
-Pope Francis
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
-Pope Francis
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Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.
April 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.
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In case anyone is wondering
April 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
In case anyone is wondering
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ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.
The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.
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April 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.