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Abby

@abigailtales.bsky.social
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Queer lawyer mama, avid reader, anti-MAGA, anti-racist, Black Lives Matter

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 08/09/2025
Donald Trump's hand-picked SCOTUS majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in LA. His administration is targeting Latinos — and anyone who doesn't look or sound like Stephen Miller's idea of an American — to deliberately harm our families and economy.
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Reading international news sources right now, as an American, painfully reminds me that there is an alternative timeline where Trump is not our POTUS and our government is working on serious things with serious people, generating serious news headlines. — www.africanews.com/2025/07/13/f...
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Pride 2025 has felt like a constant funeral. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/w...
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Good. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...
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Microsoft Drops Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Law Firm from a Case (Gift Article)
The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president’s executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Per AF News, Trump ends life-sustaining humanitarian aid to South Africa, falsely claiming the SA government is stealing white-owned land. Trump also offers “sanctuary” and a “rapid pathway to citizenship” for SA white supremacists fleeing imaginary persecution. Link in comments.
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
WaPo disintegration as member of free press complete. Gift link to article in comments.
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The_Philadelphian @the-philadelphian.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Trayvon Martin should've been 30 years old today. "His dream of flight and his flight suit was entered into The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in 2024" -Melissa Noel, Essence Magazine #blacksky #blackskyover30 #blackskyover40
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
#BlackHistoryMonth #DEI #LGBTQIA
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BnB @blacknblue.substack.com · 30/01/2025
Hooray for an almost all white, straight (supposedly), and able-bodied diverse administration! Get rid of discrimination! Meritocracy by idiocracy! capitalbnews.org/trump-cabine...
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As Hearings Begin, Here's What Trump’s Cabinet Picks Mean for Black Americans
His selections for his administration have a long history of opposition to policies that support marginalized communities.
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 30/01/2025
The US Copyright Office has declared that generative AI art and text generated by prompts cannot be copyright protected. (Read more: The Verge)
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MJMBA @spanky2345.blacksky.app · 30/01/2025
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Rep Harper!!
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social @libradunn1.bsky.social AMERICA Walk in Their Shoes Notice from the so called "JUSTICE " department "The defendant YOU testified against is being released from depth.of corrections" I am truly SO SORRY.. You dedicated your life to serve & protect NOW THIS ⬇️⬇️🤬
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 21/01/2025
ADM Fagan by all accounts was a very good head of the USCG, she just wouldn't take a loyalty oath to MAGA and they knew it. This firing is a shot across the bow to all generals and admirals that unless they pledge undying loyalty to Trump, they will be fired. MORE: news.usni.org/2025/01/21/a...
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A Loc’d Lawyer @locdlawyer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Clearly the truth about the transatlantic slave trade and its effects/influence on our country
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Star, MD MPH @starmd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
"One of these subjects holds the record for the most Grammys ever awarded to an individual; the other is Luke Bryan. Beyoncé isn’t even asking for a seat at the table. After being rejected by the dinner party once, she went out and built her own damn table in true resilient Black-girl fashion."
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Country Music Almanac 2025: Gardening Lessons
A reflection on the Country Music Association rejecting Beyoncé a second time — and how the loss is ultimately theirs.
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Per AF News, banning the use of British and French colonial-style wigs by judges is a growing trend across Africa, where countries are revisiting colonial legacies and opting for systems that resonate with their people.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 13/01/2025
Happening in North Carolina right now: A Republican who just lost a state supreme court election is using a horseshit legal theory cooked up by Republican activists to ask the Republican majority *on the same court he wants to join* to overturn his loss and make him a justice anyway
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Republicans Do Not Think People Are Entitled to Elections Anymore
In North Carolina, Republican state supreme court justices will soon decide whether to overturn an election to seat a Republican who lost it.
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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
On Monday, Judge Aileen Cannon rejected arguments from 45 trying to stop the DoJ from releasing Jack Smith's report. Her decision clears the way for AG Merrick Garland to release the report once her 3-day injunction expires at midnight Monday. Read the article for details of what & to whom.
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Justice Department can publish Jack Smith report on Trump’s Jan. 6 case, judge rules
The special counsel resigned after submitting his two-volume report days before Trump returns to office
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I really wish “simply denying reality” would stop working so effectively for DJT and his sycophants
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
“Altadena was known as safe haven for African-Americans during the Great Migration. . . [T]hese homes aren’t just a place to live but family heirlooms that are now potentially lost forever.”
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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Our incoming POTUS sounding like an insecure, navel-gazing adolescent bragging about how many followers he has on TikTok as the basis for why SCOTUS should take his advice. I cannot believe we have to endure this fool again. #Trump #TikTok
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The cause of the fires can be both climate change and arson. It’s not an either/or. We are living in hot, dry tinderboxes ready to explode at the slightest spark. That’s the climate change part. Don’t be obtuse.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
There are 395 incarcerated firefighters helping combat the wildfires in LA right now. They earn up to $26.90 over a 24-hour shift.
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‘Essential’: nearly 400 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires
The firefighters earn $5.80-$10.24 per day plus $1 an hour when responding to active emergencies, according to CDCR
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Caruso’s team of “private” firefighters drew from the same water source - which at times ran dry - that desperate “public” firefighters were using to try to save the public. And Caruso dares to criticize Mayor Bass for being on a business trip when the fires started? #californiafires #wildfire
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
WaPo has fully taken the knee www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/m...
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Washington Post cartoonist resigns over paper’s refusal to publish satirical cartoon of Bezos and Trump | CNN Business
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes announced Friday she had resigned from The Washington Post after the newspaper refused to publish a satirical cartoon depicting billionaire Post owner Jef...
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The kids are not okay. 💔🏳️‍🌈
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 04/01/2025
#Tech law in 2025: a look ahead at #AI, privacy and social media regulation under the new Trump administration buff.ly/40kGrrN (Sylvia Lu @umichlawlib.bsky.social)
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Tech law in 2025: a look ahead at AI, privacy and social media regulation under the new Trump administration
The Trump administration has different interests and priorities than those of the Biden administration for regulating technology. For some issues like AI regulation, big changes are on tap.
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Willi Morris @williesha.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Still some young Alabamians and transplants that didn't realize Alabama removed its "unenforceable" anti-interracial marriage ban in 2000, the last in the US to do so. Public vote to remove it was 60/40. 25 years ago. So I guess I'll keep talking about it. #Blacksky #Blackskyover40 #Blackskyover30
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Sarge @oldsarge.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Minority Leader Jeffries “coolness” is impressive. Jefferies recently spoke during the opening of the 119th Congress. When he mentioned, Trump‘s election, huge cheers rang out from Republicans. His response, priceless - “it’s OK, there are no election deniers on our side of the aisle.” ~ Sarge
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/01/2025
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social. propub.li/3DGXECO
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The Militia and the Mole
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I feel seen
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Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
All this discussion of echo chambers and having to “disagree well” *cough* and you’ve gone and made me tap the sign already.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/11/2024
Every reactionary centrist after this election.
Fictitious headline of the New York Times by Pamela Paul titled "To Appease My Bigotry, We Must Sacrifice Trans People By Throwing Them Into a Volcano"
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Bondi must be asked at her confirmation hearing if Trump lost the election in 2020. Unless her answer is yes, the Senate must reject her nomination. You can't be an election denier & the attorney general joycevance.substack.com/p/gaetz-out
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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Feeling hopeful for CA-45. Democrat @congresstran.bsky.social Derek Tran's lead over GOP Rep. Michelle Steel continues to grow in Saturday ballot release. laist.com/news/politic...
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Democrat Derek Tran's lead over GOP Rep. Michelle Steel continues to grow in Saturday ballot release
Tran now leads Steel by 454 votes, an increase of 26 votes from Friday.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/11/2024
Odessa, Texas has voted to pass a transgender bathroom bounty law that applies to PRIVATE bathrooms. This means even in queer spaces. If a cisgender person encounters a transgender person, they can sue them for $10,000 or more. This is the first law of its kind in the nation.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/11/2024
Tonight is probably one of the worst mental health crisis in the trans community I've ever seen. It's bleak. So many people are in crisis and I'm scared I'm going to wake up tomorrow and have lost friends. Please reach out to your trans friends and family. They could use some love.
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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 21/11/2024
Thank You, VP You brought the joy back to America, even if it was only for a minute.
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents. Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We know this because we lived this with Trump for the last eight years. Keeping focus is difficult. We're going to need to get better at this.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It’s mostly white people who talk about echo chambers. Maybe you need the internet to meet people with different ideas but the rest of us do not. We know what the “other side” thinks because we deal with it every day! Everywhere! We’re fine. Carry on. Happy Saturday!
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Abby @abigailtales.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Image I took of the cavernous entry to a hiking path in Death Valley, CA
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Cherina Jones (she/her) @cjphotoofficial.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I took this circa 2012. It is an appropriate and timely reminder. #goodtrouble #revolution #blacksky #photosky #addtoblacksky #protest
White woman in a crowd with her back to the camera holding a sign that says Revolution is not a one-time event Audre Lorde
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement
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A Blog of Their Own @blogoftheirown.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Amid the shitshow, some good news from my corner of the country: Dave Min has beaten Scott Baugh in the 47th (my district), and it sure looks like Derek Tran is going to pull off a dramatic comeback against the awful Michelle Steel to flip the seat next door.
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