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The thing that doesn't make any sense about the whole Ilhan Omar citizenship thing is that if she were actually older, they would have just...had her file her own citizenship application. Which she would have been eligible for at any point between now and then.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2h

Climate controlled tea storage shed.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 3h

Ilhan Omar got derivative citizenship when her father was naturalized. She didn't do anything to get citizenship except be her father's child. What the fuck conduct can they point to on her part. Rationality is not their point in any of this, but we need to point out that there's no fucking way.

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Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 5h

Utterly bizarre to me that this woman said ON CAMERA that she passed the bar in China, and some folks are scratching their heads over why the story went viral. It’s because they’re weird & they’re liars & this is just so obvious & incredibly easy to understand & PITIFUL. And did I mention weird?

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 5h

What y'all aren't appreciating in giggling about the firing is that she's gonna just put White House Press Secretary in her bio forever.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 5h

Okay but if she starts following all the romance authors, we KNOW there's something in the water

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6h

Ahhhhh now the whole thing makes sense. It's a grift.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7h

I get Josh’s point. I also do not correct every rando who calls me an attorney or a lawyer even though I am not able to practice law. However I would not call myself a lawyer in my own bio and would not serve as general counsel of an organization.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8h

Yup. The Niemoller poem is self-executing. They have no solutions, only blame, and the problems persist so the blame must continue no matter what they accomplish.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9h

An important thing to note in this period of fascism is that fascists are historically not good at government. Their entire shtick is "oh yeah? Well that's so-and-so's fault." Actual governance requires you to have a solution that is not "well let's fuck those marginalized guys up."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9h

One easy way to NOT have a stress ulcer is to leave the GOP.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9h

I love that this gives your car more ways to kill you if it starts malfunctioning. That's a thing we should strive for now, I guess.

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 10h

Hey, Chicago, anyone connected to a mutual aid group/community org providing support to immigrant families in Bucktown? (Connected! We have a list from google to reach out to.) We're working to get 2 girls under 12 home to mom in Venezuela, but in the meantime, the aunt who has them is struggling. ❤️

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20h

I just saw someone say “votemaxxing” and I’m a no. Please no.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21h

A perpetual wallflower destined for spinsterhood. Her former tormenter is up to his old tricks. This time, though, the earl is going to discover that wallflowers can fight back. /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Unloc... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c...

Book cover of Unlocked by Courtney Milan, New York Times Bestselling author. The Turner Series, book 1 1/2. A white woman in a vibrant pink dress clutches a white man in dark clothing on a light blue background.

Collage of covers for The Turner Series books by Courtney Milan: Unveiled, Unlocked, Unclaimed, and Unraveled.

Purple background with text that says:
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Three brothers who have overcome extraordinary odds just to survive are taking on their biggest challenge yet: happiness.
"Quite compelling and emotionally complex." - Book list

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21h

When Virga has tried to chew the furniture, we have been using a redirect: offering him an appropriate chew, a toy, or SOMETHING else. Which he usually accepts. However, I have noticed recently that he now uses his teeth on furniture as a way of telling me to go get his bone, please.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23h

I'm going to say one more thing about this. A meta-thing, if you will. I think legal commentators with elite legal backgrounds (all of them, not just Steve) need to reckon with the fact that they have a personal interest in maintaining the panache of their credentials.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/10/2026

WHAT IN THE FUCK. No. Absolutely not. That is not a search for evidence. That is a fucking targeted piece of bullshit.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/10/2026

I'm gonna be honest: if we don't want the Court to expand, two conservative justices need to get off the Court while Dems hold it, and I have preferences for who those are, but I won't be picky.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/10/2026

If they can do it to her, they will do it to anyone. Fuck this b

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 14/10/2026

I feel that if an announcement needs an explanatory blog for people not to think it's absolutely terrible, a) that explanation should have happened with the announcement and b) are you quite sure it's *not* terrible?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/10/2026

This is such important work, and the thing to keep in mind is that when AI people tell you that games will be personalized for you, this is the kind of thing they are more likely to mean.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/10/2026

I just googled the origin of the pinky raising while drinking tea thing and the only thing I am certain about is that there are about nineteen separate myths about it.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/10/2026

This whole thread is great, but one of the things I found weird about the statement was that it said the warrant was "judicially authorized search warrant" but that is kind of a roundabout way of saying what should have been said in plain language.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/10/2026

How are they judging quality of life? This has to be some weird, racist measure, based on the cities that are deemed not to have it.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/10/2026

I agree, every single one of them should not have been hired or deployed, and if you were to vet them you would say "I see you applied to be part of ICE, ah well, that is disqualifying"

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/10/2026

Remember how Alex Kozinski wrote that the Democrats would try to cancel the midterms, a thing that made absofuckinglutely no sense because why would the Democrats want to cancel their chance to take back power?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/10/2026

Look, this is bad and terrible but challenge level: don’t be a shitty misogynist has once again been failed.

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hi all, We need help again this month, especially due to circumstances like being ill, not getting our food stamp card, and missing work. We appreciate any donations or boosts! Thank you! gofund.me/7715b479c

Hi all,
Another month with setbacks and difficulties making ends meet. Our income last month was not as good as we'd hoped it would be. BG and I have also recently been pretty badly sick, so that we've both been unable to work for over a week, which means we're going to come up short for this month, too.
In addition, we've been approved for EBT, but the EBT card has been surprisingly late in arriving, leading to us also coming up somewhat short on food bills.
I'd love to raise at least $800 to make sure our rent is covered in the next couple weeks.
Thank you all again, we appreciate any help you have to give.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 12/10/2026

Have you called your congress reps to tell them to defend Ilhan Omar? Now’s a good day! 5calls.org makes it easy!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/10/2026

So we have had a handful of people request Hallowe'en whistles, and (a) we love that, yes, do that! but also (b) our whistles are NOT for young children; they are extremely loud and should only be given to adults and kids who are old enough.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12/10/2026

On October 14, 1781, Alexander Hamilton led a daring assault on Yorktown's defenses and won a decisive victory in America's fight for independence. Decades later, when Eliza Hamilton collected his soldiers' stories,

A variety of cheese spread on the left side with a quote on the right: "The cheese is a lie."

The cover of Hamilton's Battalion below.

The cover of The Pursuit of Happiness by Courtney Milan: two men, one white, one black, looking at each other, with the silhouette of a flag in the background.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Ilhan Omar raid is for public humiliation. To cast g Democrats as crooks , socialists, woke linking them with the one image Trump and his admin believes no one will defend A Black woman , Muslim and immigrant. The person he has always targeted in ramp ups . For ONCE can we believe them

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12/10/2026

I have called my representatives and demanded that they stand up for Ilhan Omar. It's not just the proximity to an election. If Trump is able to weaponize DHS/DOJ to take out sitting members of Congress without backlash, that's it, that's the whole game.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12/10/2026

Look, people keep saying shit like this, and I do not know how to explain to people that "I want the Democrats to hold the GOP accountable for their crimes" is not a statement that the GOP has no agency. It is saying they have agency, they are choosing to do evil, and you have to stand up to them.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 12/10/2026

This is outrageous, despotic shit and everyone who played a role in it should lose their place in polite society. Show us the warrant. Who asked for it? What did they claim? Have there been grand jury proceedings? Who was in charge? And what judge, if any, signed off on the search warrant?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026

The thing that gets me about this is I know how hard the graduated income tax volunteers worked to get it on the ballot. So hard. All the time. For months.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026

Someone asked me to sign one of these petitions at the grocery store. The description they gave to me of what the measure did and the description on the sheet were misleadingly different.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026

I'm not arguing with this point--death threats are extremely common!--and absolutely, politicians should deal with it, but I keep thinking about the fact that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered and nobody blinked an eye.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026

So like... the only reason he is so fixated on the Nobel Peace Prize is Obama, right?

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Also: the cruelty inflicted on the unhoused is a barometer of the state violence we're willing to tolerate.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's actually not complicated. You end homelessness with safe, dignified housing people can afford.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026

Not only is this true, one of the reasons tomatoes are extra good is that they contain MSG and drying them concentrates it. You can also add MSG to things.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026

When Donald Trump says that the war to Ukraine wouldn't have happened if he had been president, he is not only lying, he is in fact obfuscating his specific role in what happened.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

Whistle requests: very light for a while, desultory printing, not a lot going on The last two days: 60 requests in 48 hours, tens of thousands of whistles requested Whistle goblins: have claimed 98% of the requests, and they're all moving out post haste

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

Got Virga a snuffleball. He LOVES it.

Virga sniffing a rainbow snuffleball made of folded pieces of felt, trying to find out where I hid the treats.

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