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tom lagasse

@tlagasse.bsky.social
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Writer. 2025 E Ethelbert Miller Prize. Poet Laureate of Bristol, CT. Pro-Democracy. Open Mic Night host.

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tom lagasse @tlagasse.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Getting started in the arts: Getting a jump on change www.bristoledition.org/blog/2025/11...
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Getting started in the arts: Getting a jump on change - The Bristol Edition
by Tom Lagasse | Poet laureate of Bristol | Nov. 24, 2025 | On Thanksgiving, the Manchester Road Race will have an estimated 12,000 runners participating in the annual five-mile...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
SNAP benefits expire in one week.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 23/10/2025
ICE in Portland: “Dear God, they’re Jazzercising in formation! Light ‘em up!”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2025
The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 02/10/2025
This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours. Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 02/10/2025
The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2025
Secretary Pete Hegseth's new facial hair grooming standards are discriminatory against troops who can't shave for religious reasons and Black and Brown people, who are more likely to have skin conditions that make shaving difficult and painful.
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US Army unveils new grooming policy
Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, initiated a militarywide review of standards earlier this year.
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tom lagasse @tlagasse.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
And he's the enemy...
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 30/09/2025
The GOP SHUTDOWN of the federal government will: 🚨Skyrocket costs 🚨Screw up essential services 🚨Abandon disaster victims 🚨Make everyday life even WORSE for Americans This is America after nine months of Donald Trump.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Ronald Reagan–appointed U.S. District Judge William Young: “ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence… To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”
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BlueBird @sun2stars.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Google's YouTube will pay Trump $24.5m for suspending his account re J6. $22m of it will go to constructing the $200m WH ballroom. Meta will pay $25m over FB & IG Trump J6 suspensions. X paid $10m, which Trump called 'a big discount.'
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YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension
YouTube is the latest social media company to pay Trump tens of millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits brought before he returned to power. The money will fund a new ballroom at the White House.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 30/09/2025
FYI. If the Govt shuts down, everyone stays in town including the president but you’re just bored with nothing to do because it’s all messaging and negotiations. GREAT TIME TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I’m still processing what happened this morning. Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Perfect
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/09/2025
THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress. Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights. But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Since every Republican in Congress is repeating their false talking point over & over that “Democrats want to shut down the govt to give free healthcare to illegal aliens,” it would be helpful if some Democrats in Congress could address that argument with facts at some point.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Oregon AG Rayfield: I know for a fact, from talking to cities across Oregon, that if you pick up the phone and ask, “What could be helpful?” the answer would not be the United States military.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Congrats to team Europe for winning the Ryder Cup. Historic and well deserved. Our fans were disgraceful. An embarrassment to the US team and the game of golf. No class, dignity or grace…just like their cult leader in the White House.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
79. American citizen.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
"Mona" was pruning citrus trees in CAs Central Valley. It was over 100° on this day. She sat down, putting an ice water bottle on her head to cool off a little. She is glad she's able to rest & cool off when she needs it, thanks to the CA heat laws the UFW fought for. #WeFeedYou
Worker taking a break from pruning with an ice bottle under her hat to cool down
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2025
It’s a fact. Data from three decades of political violence reveals that right-wing terror attacks outnumber attacks from the left. And it’s not even close!
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Unfortunately we’re in an unprecedented era of rich people finding out that everyone hates them and making it a problem for all of us
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2025
Andy McCarthy: "The indictment almost fails as an indictment in that it doesn't give you notice of what Comey has actually done. But factually there's nothing there. So this smacks of wanting to put Comey through the process, which is what lawfare is."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Czech Republic President reposted this on Instagram 👇🏽
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Because this administration thinks everyone believes the rules only matter when it helps “your side” (like they do), they are counting on Comey’s unpopularity to normalize this. Don’t let it. Whatever you think of him or his actions in the past, etc. this indictment is dangerous and an outrage.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 26/09/2025
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a burn book. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...
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DHS Calls for Media and Far Left to Stop the Demonization of President Trump, His Supporters, and DHS Law Enforcement | Homeland Security
Following the evil act of political violence witnessed in the country last week and two attempts to resist arrest resulting in severe injuries of ICE law enforcement officers—one being drug by a car a...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser
@PeteHegseth on X: Cool story, General

QT of @general_ben on X: July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Lots of tech folks went. He was constantly at events sucking up to them www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
politico.com
Musk, Bannon and Thiel named in new Epstein estate documents
The House Oversight Committee is continuing to release redacted materials in its ongoing Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Braids are a great way to keep your hair out of your face, especially when ICE teargasses you. Also they don’t get caught in a respirator. 10/10 would recommend.
A selfie of me in a full face respirator. My childish braids are behind me and I’m holding up a peace sign with the NLG number on my arm.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The irony is that Trumpworld is obsessed with energy.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
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godlessbitch.bsky.social @godlessbitch.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Chris✝️insanity Hateful, misogynistic, murderous, bigoted, racist
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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