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Laura Roop

@lauraroop.bsky.social
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Retired literacy educator and former National Writing Project director. "We birth the beloved community by becoming the beloved community."--Valarie Kaur, SEE NO STRANGER

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-dep…
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Tesla paid just 4.9% of their profits in federal corporate taxes in 2025. They have seen their collective tax bill drop by $95B thanks to two rounds of Trump tax cuts. Meanwhile, they've laid off thousands of workers. Trickle-down economics was always a scam.
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Laura Roop @lauraroop.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I am so aggravated that I cast a ballot for this chameleon! It was him or Dr. Oz...
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Children are suffering in a for-profit prison. Send them home. Abolish ICE. And ban private, for-profit prisons forever.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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Alberto Resists 🏳️‍🌈 🦋 @alberto-resists.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Maga heads all over America exploding tonight
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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
John Fetterman’s wife Gisele posted this in response to last week’s killing by federal agents in Minneapolis. Incredibly, the senator himself has not yet said anything publicly or issued any statements.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Martin Luther King Jr. understood better than almost anyone that racial justice and economic justice are inextricably intertwined. Watch his powerful call to end poverty from his final Sunday Sermon.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
These elected Dems still don’t get it. @booker.senate.gov
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Don’t listen to fools or you might become one.
Screenshot of an X post quoting Stephen Hawking about the illusion of knowledge, paired with a reply criticizing Joe Rogan for confusing chickenpox with measles. A video still shows Joe Rogan speaking into a microphone during his podcast.
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Icymi: A week before Thanksgiving, the Trump administration deleted the Federal Report on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...
A woman with brown skin and glasses holds up a protest sign reading “SILENT NO MORE - MMIW - Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women - No More Stolen Sisters”
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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social is too good for this stupid app. Her newsletter is free. This one is painful poetry about the wonders of the world and life and death. The personal & universal. I never thought anyone could articulate the magic of the natural world the way I experience it, but this is it.
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The Empty Stage
Johnny Cash, loss, and redemption
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
From my book THEY KNEW, written in 2021, on Trump's plans. This is what's happening now.
Excerpt from THEY KNEW.
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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 17/10/2025
The Nazi regime in DC has now decided that American families who rely on SNAP benefits will not be eating in November. Yes, you read that right. No food for Thanksgiving. Because Nazi republicans in power don't want anyone to see the Epstein files. #SheShed
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Debra🐝 @seedsong.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
For ten years, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been explaining and predicting ad nauseum our current political nightmare. Please give her a listen starting at: 1:44:00 www.youtube.com/live/Cv2lAcF...
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War-Show Celebration in CA to Showcase Ego, Danger & Missiles 10/16/25
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I wrote about politics in 2025: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-united...
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-united-states-of-flying-carp

“OK, I’ll tell you,” I said. “A giant flying carp hit me in the face and knocked me half out of my kayak into a fallen tree which trapped me with branches like claws and as soon as I broke loose, the goddamn carp flew back and smacked me again.”
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Alberto Resists 🏳️‍🌈 🦋 @alberto-resists.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
My office is reaching out to the White House and Homeland Security for more information. We have been provided no information on the reason or purpose of any military mission. There is no national security threat in Portland. Our communities are safe and calm.
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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
On the first day in office, this President pardoned actual violent insurrectionists who stormed our Capitol. Now he’s making up shit in Portland to justify using the military AGAINST the American people. Real POS behavior from this TEMU dictator.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/08/2025
Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice" Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
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SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice
Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
If you are kidnapping your citizens with no due process to take away their freedom and trying to silence media, law firms, and universities for exercising free speech, you don't get to call yourself "Leader of the Free World."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Indeed it should — but don’t hold your breath. Most of our newspapers are feckless, intimidated and cowardly!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
LMAOOOO www.instagram.com/reel/DK2nMmJ...
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Governor Gavin Newsom’s office having lunch. What do you see? 😅😂🤣 🌮🌮🌮 LMAO 😅😂🤣
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social. The Firefighter #LosAngelesProtests
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Are we headed toward a Constitutional Crisis? Or we already in one? Listen to Senator Angus King... (Excerpt from today's "To the Contrary" Podcast.)
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"I voted for lawless, anonymous, masked, and unchecked police" is one hell of a jump from "eggs cost too much."
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🦋HTown Tegs🦋 @htowntegs.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
💙💛Slava Ukraini‼️💙💛
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lindsay berger sacks @lindsaybergersacks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Pres, Gagliardi, of the 🇺🇸 Federation of Musicians: “We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16/05/2025
Reminder: the Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen posts are just to distract from the Qatari "gift" or the fact that he's trying to rip Medicare and Medicaid from millions of Americans right now.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Do be sure and share this.
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NPR @npr.org · 09/05/2025
Michael Gonzales, the ambassador to Zambia, announced at an emotional press conference that the U.S. would cut $50 million in aid due to theft of medications.
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Why this U.S. ambassador cried at a press conference -- and is being called a hero
Michael Gonzales, the ambassador to Zambia, announced at an emotional press conference that the U.S. would cut $50 million in aid due to theft of medications.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Today in Newark, NJ, ICE demonstrated that it was unfamiliar with the statute explicitly governing ICE and authorized unnoticed inspections by congress members and their staffers.
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Laura Roop @lauraroop.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Ghastly. Slavery lives in 2025...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 29/04/2025
100 days that have felt like 100 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgkJ...
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100 Days of Chaos
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
NGC 5335, 200 million light-years away, in the direction of the constellation Virgo, is a barred-spiral galaxy w/ flocculent arms. Relative to other galaxies, the central, barred region is particularly prominent. In the background are thousands of other galaxies. Image credit: HST, NASA, ESA, STScI
NGC 5335, 200 million light-years away, in the direction of the constellation Virgo, is a barred-spiral galaxy w/ flocculent arms. Relative to other galaxies, the central, barred region is particularly prominent. In the background are thousands of other galaxies.

Image credit: HST, NASA, ESA, STScI
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/04/2025
This is the best 100-day recap I’ve seen — and it begs the damn question: Why is his approval rating still 39%? Are folks in a coma?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/04/2025
ICYMI — Maddow runs through the 100 day Fox/YouGov numbers on Trump’s approval—a total disaster for him. This one stood out for me: Q: “Can Trump ignore SCOTUS if he thinks they overstep constitutional authority?” A: NO — by a 49-point margin. Americans aren’t quite ready to crown Trump king.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Sotomayor is right. According to this Supreme Court, the US can now kidnap, detain, and fly legal immigrants and citizens to a foreign country's prison, even if it's a whoopsie. America, people. Freedom and stuff.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
"Vanilla is in vanilla ice cream and what else?" is such a perfect encapsulation of the surly self-confidence of the people who are ripping the wires out of our government and our economy.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 02/04/2025
Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.
Screenshot of three tweets from @JamesSurowiecki dated 2 April 2025. (1) "It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement, is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff." (2) "Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is." (3) "Even given that it's Trump, I cannot believe they said "We'll just divide the trade deficit by imports and tell people that's the tariff rate." And then they decided to set our tariffs by just cutting that totally made-up rate in half! This is so dumb and deceptive."
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 01/04/2025
Republicans say they want to lower costs. But they literally just passed legislation to let Big Banks charge you higher fees. They’re stealing from hardworking families to reward themselves and their billionaire donors. newrepublic.com/post/193279/...
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