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Lisa Laplante

@lisalaplante

Human rights lawyer, professor, activist, and scholar. I am a political empath who is guided by the idea that the process of mutually respectful and inclusive dialogue leads to transformation.

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Trump's tariffs sabotaging the US and world economy for now real good reasons other than a made up "emergency" are now being reported as an administrative mistake.

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07.04.2025 17:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tariffs kicked in yesterday. This is what it looks like today.

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03.04.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Loyalty to Trump is the national security crisis."

The incompetence that leads to careless mistakes by his unqualified Cabinet members works in his favor as they depend on him to avoid jail.

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28.03.2025 01:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Interesting data on very low approval rates of the Republicans coming out of Texas. It is not just the blue states that are feeling the pain of the current administration.

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27.03.2025 23:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I predict the Feds will take up the complaints about Williams and Lamar at the Super Bowl as part of their general DEI/Woke persecution although based on 125 complaints from 125 million viewers.

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27.03.2025 19:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Johnson floats the idea that the US Congress could eliminate the Federal Courts. Can the Congress take such a dramatic approach to solve their complaint that the courts are challenging Trumps many EOs. Paradoxically, a federal court--the Supreme one--would decide.

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25.03.2025 20:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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US Supreme Court declines to accept case that would have challenged the "actual malice" requirement of defamation brought by a Trump donor suing the AP. A win for the media and freedom of speech.

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24.03.2025 20:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The US has lived a constant identity struggle that continues today. History shows us the push and pull from forces in favor of an oligarchy against the forces in favor of a liberal democracy. Here we are in yet another push and pull. How will it end?

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24.03.2025 18:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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No surprise...Republicans in Congress are being paid by Musk to seek impeachment of judges who rule against Musk's DOGE efforts. They don't even try to hide the corruption.

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23.03.2025 16:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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During the Dirty Wars in Latin America, political activists and perceived "agitators" were "disappeared"....arrested by unidentifiable agents, not told what they did wrong, held incommunicado, denied any court proceeding. This is now happening in the U.S.
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20.03.2025 11:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For all those who thought it was an exaggeration that the "GREAT" in MAGA referred to a time when white supremacy reigned, you were wrong.

20.03.2025 11:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Unhinged Miller.

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19.03.2025 16:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I hope so!
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18.03.2025 19:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The detention of Mahmoud Khalil and how the Trump administration's actions threaten free speech The Trump White House is using Department of Homeland Security intelligence to identify pro-Palestinian college protestors. Courts have ruled that campus protests are protected by the First Amendment....

On Point (NPR) provided an excellent analysis of the protests on Columbia's campus which form the basis of Mahmoud Khalil's recent detention. The interview of Prof. Cole on free speech in the US is very informative for anyone feeling like they need detail.
www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

17.03.2025 20:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump slashes another working class benefit given by Biden: taking away the higher minimum wage (which is still too low to live on).

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17.03.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Miller is the crazy man behind many of Trump's extreme measures. Unhinged and dangerous. My understanding is that many of the men sent to El Salvador had never even had a trial.

17.03.2025 19:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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US border czar declares: "I don't care what judges think." A complete assault on the rule of law.

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17.03.2025 18:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump now thinks he can declare null and void Biden's pardons to further persecute his perceived political enemies, including those who investigated the insurrection. He is drunk with power.

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17.03.2025 14:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Administration Opens Investigations At More Than 50 Universities In Anti-DEI Campaign β€œStudents must be assessed according to merit and accomplishment, not prejudged by the color of their skin,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.

Attacking higher education is always strategic in tyranny as it dismantles free thought. Trump is investigating 50 US universities for DEI programs, especially related to programs to advance traditionally marginalized populations. Hold on funding til compliant.
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17.03.2025 11:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Brown University Doctor Deported Despite Court Order Blocking Removal - EconoTimes Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a 34-year-old Rhode Island physician and assistant professor at Brown Universitys medical school, has been deported to Lebanon despite a judges order halting her removal. Alawieh, a...

The Constitutional Crisis has officially begun. The Trump Administration defied a court order to hold a legal immigrant's deportation for 24 hours pending an appeal. She is a scientist and professor at Brown University.

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17.03.2025 11:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dictator shit

17.03.2025 04:36 πŸ‘ 37113 πŸ” 8327 πŸ’¬ 3942 πŸ“Œ 2069
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Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump’s Tyranny - Ralph Nader By Ralph Nader March 14, 2025 There are reasons why influential or knowledgeable Americans are staying silent as the worsening fascist dictatorship of the Trumpsters and Musketeers gets more entrenche...

The silence is deafening.

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17.03.2025 02:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.

No institution of higher education can sit this one out. It will be dominos without resistance.

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17.03.2025 01:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Graham claiming top law firms deserve to be sanctioned by Trump for making up legal claims to politically persecute and ruin Trump. Funny how he says "we don't get it" when making statements about top lawyers and judges which reveal a complete detachment from reality.

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16.03.2025 21:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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As predicted by Harris, Putin is eating Trump for lunch.

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16.03.2025 17:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won't buy a Tesla car A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle. It doesn’t bode well for the...

The amazingly quick hit to Tesla's stock value in direct protest against Musk reveals that capitalism relies entirely on consumers--not CEOs and not shareholders. Consumers have power to change policy. Now that consumers are recognizing this power to change the game.
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16.03.2025 01:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Translating this unhinged order into international law terms, Trump seems to be claiming that Tren de Aragua is an organ of the Venezualan government.

15.03.2025 21:45 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Donald Trump’s presidency is already in a state of collapse and crisis...His incoherence, lack of discipline, focus, basic competence and connection to the grassroots can be excused by his winged monkeys like Laura Ingraham on Fox News." (says GOP Insider)
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16.03.2025 00:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hmm, I wonder what they are hiding in Jack Smith's second report? Curious minds want to know.

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15.03.2025 23:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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As promised, Trump is weaponizing the Justice Department to inflict revenge on his perceived enemies regardless of whether they actually broke the law or not.

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15.03.2025 16:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0