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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 · 04/12/2024
Conway in 2018. He likes Trump’s henchmen Gorsuch AND Kavanaugh on SCOTUS.
George Conway stated that he likes SCOTUS reactionaries Gorsuch and Kavanaugh appointed by Trump. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/16/george-conway-dishes-it-all-996715
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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Nobody should trust your judgement. You brought Kavanaugh onto our highest court, you grifter.
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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
You should have advised Biden differently on moving forward from Jan 6. You treated it as a normal crime to be slowly “prosecuted” until it became irrelevant. You must have been in on the bipartisan pact to confirm GOP plant Merrick Garland as AG, with 20 GOP votes including McConnell. Biden knew.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package.” newrepublic.com/article/2057...
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Donald Trump Is Frightened
Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I need a ride, not ammo - maduro probably
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like: “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 02/01/2026
Don’t let this go unnoticed just because it’s the holidays!
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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Joe Biden had only one job as the first American president who faced a violent, actually deadly, coup instead of a peaceful transfer of power. His first to nth priorities should have been to prevent that coup from being a rehearsal. An unpunished coup is a rehearsal. 🧵 1/x
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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Lying to kids about Santa is grooming them for authoritarianism. There, I said it!
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working
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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
In Hitler’s Germany, gentiles were as repulsed by Jews as most white Americans are by Muslim or Latino immigrants. Jewish Anne Frank wasn’t a cute white preteen girl. She had been dehumanized by vicious antisemitic propaganda for decades.
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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Hey Vladimir, release the Epstein files!
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They See Blue @theyseeblue.org · 25/09/2025
Grandmother living in the USA for 3 Decades Deported to India #ICE tinyurl.com/harjitkaurdeported
Grandmother living in the USA for 3 Decades Deported to India #ICE
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/09/2025
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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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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 · 11/09/2025
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 · 10/09/2025
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 · 10/09/2025
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 · 09/09/2025
“It’s not his signature” is the new “the election was stolen” A loyalty test
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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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 · 03/09/2025
Trump means Woody Allen, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime Manhattan neighbor?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/09/2025
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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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/09/2025
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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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
i need everyone to focus because when it happens we need to immediately end the vance presidency in the crib by starting a rumor he and peter thiel did it
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
MADDOW: “Watch what he does, not what he says.” @maddow.msnbc.com asks the media to zoom out and see Trump firing professionals in law enforcement and the military as a precursor for what he’s planning to ask them to do — and imagine if it was happening in another country.
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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
They’re lynching a random Latino family man on the global stage, to demonize a people, and ethnic cleanse America through terror. The world should stop Trump’s government.
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Ellsworth Green @greenellsworth.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/08/2025
Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes. One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
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What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen
Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men, t...
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God @thegodshow.com · 24/08/2025
Centrists are beginning to suspect everyone is getting tired of their bullshit.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
a lot of people seem to conceptualize what happened to Twitter as “they stopped censoring the Nazis” but what actually happened is they rebuilt it to create Nazis
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Young student filming goons explains how the goons (DHS) are following him wherever he goes.
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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I wrote an introduction to a series I’m writing called Introduction to Activism (for newbies), and it’s on substack. Yes, I wrote an intro to the intro and here it is. Please read and share. open.substack.com/pub/vararama...
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Nobody's Coming To Lead Us
It's a good thing sandstorms need no leaders
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20/08/2025
Volume up
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Democratic Governors, you have to play hardball. Red states can't function without your economies. They clearly want to F around. It's find out time.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
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Red Lori Bright Eyes A Fucking Bitch @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The thing about trump sending troops into our cities is HE RAPED KIDS
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Joseph Dennis @jd1515151.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
She BeBest Agent!
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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Over half a million Gazans are dead. Netanyahu is almost finished with his project. No food is entering Gaza, but weapons are entering Israel. Good job, Ezra, I guess.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Ezra Klein, NYT columnist and author, discovered that g-e-n-o-c-i-d-e has an undeniable definition by bringing an expert on his bro show. Next he’ll bring on an expert to explain d-i-c-t-i-o-n-a-r-y, then c-o-n-s-c-i-e-n-c-e. Soon, we’ll all be qualified to be NYT authors. Just you wait.
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a woman is wearing a clown costume and applying lipstick to her lips .
Alt: putting on the finishing touches of clown makeup @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
So, to be clear: *Federal employment, which built much of the Black middle class—attacked & slashed *Cities with Black mayors—targeted *Black neighborhoods/communities—invaded *Affirmative action @ colleges—eliminated *Black history—demonized, erased, & written over They are re- segregating.
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Lara Lakshmi @laralakshmi.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The homeless are the most vulnerable among us, in DC or anywhere else. Call out the fascists for treating people like trash.
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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Pay close attention to what Klein does here. This is the kind of pained intellectual handwringing we're going to see from every good liberal in the future. It's the most disgusting, fake intellectual, self-excusing garbage, but it's worse coming from Klein. 1/5 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
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Opinion | When Is It Genocide?
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