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Lesa Tanner

@elsietea.bsky.social
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Author of Images of America: Graton. Writer, grandma, and water aerobics devotee. Always moving forward. She/her. Democrat

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Lesa Tanner @elsietea.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The Tonys!!!
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Lesa Tanner @elsietea.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Xavier Becerra is my kind of boring! He’s what California needs
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I know I sound crazy but instead of spending a billion dollars in a day to kill people in another country we should try spending a billion dollars in a day to help people in this country.
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Lesa Tanner @elsietea.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Do you think the CHP should be hunting down people with suspected traffic violations and grabbing them off the street and throwing them into detention facilities? A traffic ticket and being undocumented are the same level of civil lawbreaking. Why are we tolerating this behavior from ICE?
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
we have not "apprehended" the president of venezuela. we have invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. what the fuck are we doing here, i am going to lose my mind
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
He’s utterly mad, mentally unfit to be in that office, and a clear and present danger to this country & the world. #25thAmendment. It’s time.
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
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Lesa Tanner @elsietea.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Every accusation is a confession
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
How quickly would the crime rate drop if we deported MAGA men?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/08/2025
it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer
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Lesa Tanner @elsietea.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The Trump administration has quietly released the first stage of its plan to revoke birthright citizenship from the children of immigrants. It uses dry legalese to conceal the barbaric reality of ICE agents in maternity wards and deportation flights for babies. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined.
Try as it might, the government cannot cover up the horrors with bureaucratic legalese.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Celebrating our country’s independence from a monarchy given the state of things feels wrong. Like getting a Facebook birthday notification for a friend who’s dead.
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/06/2025
If the bill passes, it will make ICE the nation’s largest jailer, with more funding for prison camps than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons. It would give ICE enough money to have more officers than the entire FBI.
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This Is Ethnic Cleansing.
Dear Humans,
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/06/2025
As we see Trump attack Iran in violation of Constitutional law and Democratic leadership respond by writing groveling and impotent tweets, I'm reminded why someone described Republicans as the Uvalde shooter and Democrats as the cops who waited outside and did nothing. Smh.
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Diane H @dihollis1.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/06/2025
you mean violence from ICE, the National Guard, and Border Patrol, right? because that’s the violence we’re seeing right now
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
immigrants belong in our community. ICE doesn't.
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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 17/05/2025
The Trump Admin is considering doing a game show where immigrants compete for citizenship—because in their America, basic human rights are entertainment. This isn’t a game. It’s people’s lives. It’s cruelty as spectacle. It’s vile. The Apprentice: Fascism Edition.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Celebrate Mother’s Day by letting people choose whether or not to be mothers.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Hitler gave people free train rides.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Trump supports the white kind of immigration.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
the fool notion that our society is a corporation and everything it does must generate profit for a group of shareholders needs to be demolished forever; we own it and the services are the profit it generates for us, if we demolish the services somebody's getting the $$ and it ain't us
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Congrats everyone — we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. 😳🇺🇸 theonion.com/ice-agents-w...
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
They’re not “deporting” people, they’re kidnapping them and sending them to foreign prisons. Concentration camps. They’re paying these countries to imprison humans. It’s human trafficking.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens. Fascism is here.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Our friends are running a campaign against Avelo, join: www.change.org/p/we-won-t-f... Thanks for considering!
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Sign the Petition
We won't fly Avelo until they stop ICE flights! ¡No volaremos con Avelo!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/03/2025
Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Lesa Tanner @elsietea.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Where is our Democratic leadership? Make this happen! @alexpadilla4ca.bsky.social @adamschiff.com
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
When Trump is ludicrously claiming a mandate, the last thing Democrats should do is the kind of public soul searching and compromise in values that reinforces his fantasy.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Senate Democratic leadership essentially played dead today and greenlit the Trump-Musk-Vance coup. What is the point of the Democratic Party if it doesn't actually act like an opposition party? Hello?
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Before we can fight Republicans we apparently have to destroy the Democratic party, in the same way that firefighters knock down a door that’s obstructing their way before they can fight the fire.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
If Americans don't like the direction of the country, they should speak directly to power—either by taking a Supreme Court justice on an all-expenses-paid trip or by paying Donald Trump 5 million dollars to have dinner together.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Has anyone called Bitcoin “Dunning-Krugerrand” yet?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/02/2025
If someone wanted to destroy the United States from within, would they do anything differently than what Trump is doing right now?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Instead of being sent to prison for his many crimes against the United States, the orange felon was given full power of the US govt and is now referring to himself as a King. I hate him with every fiber of my being and I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this tyrannical shit.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Money freak who thinks of the vast majority of people as NPCs, looks at playing with our lives as a game.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Trump is doing by executive order what he is too weak to do by legislation. He does not have the votes in Congress. He wouldn't be able to get ANY of this passed if he tried. He is the WEAKEST incoming president in 50 years.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 05/02/2025
In a span of 24 hours Trump: •Signed EO withdrawing USA from UN Human Rights Council •Declared ethnic cleaning of Gaza & US control •Sent immigrants to a Gitmo concentration camp •Said he’d let El Salvador imprison US Citizens If you still don’t see this fascism for what it is you’re complicit.
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Anonymous @youranonnews.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The time is NOW. Block all confirmations. Vote against all measures. Refuse to comply. Do not obey in advance! You can’t work with fascists. Stop acting like you can! SAY NO!
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Democratic lawmakers need to understand something: Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain." And just stand there. This is how many of you are coming across.
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