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Amie Wexler (she/her)

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Mom + wife + lawyer + criminal justice reform + gun violence prevention + BLM

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 05/08/2026
Outdoor pools, sports camps, a Tigard concert and other events are among the casualties of Wednesday's hazardous air and 96-degree heat. mrf.lu/2ZJ1p
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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
All children in Oregon under age 5 can now receive a free book in the mail every month. Expanding access to books at an early age is a wonderful investment in our kids and our state's future.
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Need a free monthly book for your Oregon child under 5? A new state law guarantees it • Oregon Capital Chronicle
GRESHAM — When her son began receiving free books in the mail at his grandmother’s Washington house, Claire Catt jumped into action. A mother of two “program graduates” from a program which now provid...
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Amie Wexler (she/her) @amwex.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Donate to Dr. Annie Andrew’s campaign today. Don’t just enjoy reading these tributes to Graham, give in his honor. This is the year if there ever was one to flip that seat. secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_a...
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Elect Annie Andrews
Donate to send Annie to the Senate!
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"Tributes Pour In for Senator Lindsey Graham", then a dramatic blank space on the landing page of NYT.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 08/07/2026
For many public colleges and universities in California, keeping their campuses safe includes owning military-grade weaponry — AR-15s, stun grenades designed to cause temporary blindness and sonic weapons... cal.news/3R2p3pC 📸 Adriana Heldiz
A University of California campus police officer pushes a pro-Palestinian protester away from a moving San Diego Sheriff's bus with arrested protesters onboard at UC San Diego in San Diego on May 6, 2024. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Graham Platner shouldn't be a United States Senator -- and neither should Susan Collins -- and I really really hope there's a way for both of those things to be true.
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Amie Wexler (she/her) @amwex.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A proposed rule fueled by Trump’s conspiracy theories would require the USPS to keep a list of voters it believes should be allowed to vote by mail—and give them the power to hold those ballots hostage. Urge them to say NO and help protect voting by mail: act.standupamerica.com/letters/cte-...
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Don’t Let Trump Sabotage Vote by Mail!
In a new proposed rule, the USPS would be required to keep a list of voters it believes should be allowed to vote by mail—as well as the power to stop those ballots from being delivered. Urge them to ...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Gorsuch, Alito, and Thomas dissent. How tf is this not unanimous
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It’s important to keep today’s birthright citizenship decision in context. First, SCOTUS left the status of a fundamental, explicitly articulated constitutional right uncertain for over a year all to affirm what was clear from the issuance of Trump’s EO. Birthright citizenship cannot be abridged.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
JUST IN: The Supreme Court *upholds* birthright citizenship as a right under the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Roberts writes the 6-3 decision, with only Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissenting.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST TRUMP'S ORDER LIMIT BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/06/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled that states can ban transgender girls from school sports. This is a devastating ruling for trans students across the country who simply want the freedom to play with their friends.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Supreme Court's second opinion is NRSC v. FEC. By a 6–3 vote, the court guts another campaign finance statute and overturns a 2001 precedent that upheld restrictions on political parties' coordinated expenditures with candidates. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, holds that federal coordinated party expenditure campaign-finance limits violate the First Amendment. Kavanaugh has the opinion for the court. Kagan has the dissent, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 30/06/2026
After bold pledge, EPA shelves microplastics testing in U.S. drinking water
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After bold pledge, EPA shelves microplastics testing in U.S. drinking water
In April, EPA Chief Lee Zeldin and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a news conference declaring their dedication to studying microplastics, in the human body and in drinking water. But a new EPA drinking water testing rule leaves them out.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trans rights are human rights always and forever.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
All right, let's get this over with, America
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Supreme Court's first decisions are the trans athlete cases. By a 6–3 vote, the court holds that Title IX and the equal protection clause do NOT stop states from excluding trans women and girls from female sports teams. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NEW: In 2020, the Montana U.S. Atty cut a plea deal that let a tribal police officer who sexually abused a 6-year-old girl serve less than a year in prison + dodge the sex offender registry. That U.S. Atty is now Montana GOP Senate nominee Kurt Alme. www.huffpost.com/entry/montan...
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Montana GOP Senate Nominee Kurt Alme Let Child Sex Offender Off The Hook
As U.S. attorney, Alme cut a plea deal in 2020 that let Mychal Thomas Damon serve less than a year in prison after sexually abusing a 6-year-old.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Chief Justice Roberts just announced from the bench that *tomorrow* (Tuesday) will be the last day for opinion hand-downs this term. So we'll get birthright citizenship, the two transgender discrimination cases, and the big campaign finance case in some order at 10 ET tomorrow.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Sotomayor: "The Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Reminder that Trump issued an executive order to boost production of glyphosate, a chemical in weedkiller linked to cancer. His DOJ also defended chemical manufacturers in the Supreme Court case that was ruled on today, which helps shield them from liability claims. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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NPR @npr.org · 26/06/2026
As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, former national park rangers are hosting teach-ins and sharing history that the Trump administration has sought to erase from federal land.
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Trump axed a Black history exhibit. Former park rangers are teaching it anyway.
As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, former national park rangers are hosting teach-ins and sharing history that the Trump administration has sought to erase from federal land.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/06/2026
Homan: "We had a record, historic year with deportations. But now we've got 10,000 more agents on board. Wait until next year."
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
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Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"As soon as the Administration bought the warehouses, local communities began to rebel, including in conservative areas..." Yep. And they changed history by doing so. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.
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OPB @opb.org · 03/06/2026
In what a scientist called "a crippling loss of information," the Trump administration is dismantling a network of ocean sensors, including those off Oregon and Washington's coast. The network helps scientists monitor everything from ocean circulation and climate change to ecosystems and weather.
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Scientists lose critical climate monitoring in oceans along nation’s coastlines in wake of Trump funding cuts
The Trump administration is dismantling a $386 million network of more than 900 ocean sensors, including those along Oregon and Washington's coasts, funded by the National Science Foundation. An expert told The Associated Press Tuesday that it’s a crippling loss of information.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Meiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her? Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Morris Day and The Time responds: "Contrary to rumor, Morris Day & The Time will not be performing at the 'Great American State Fair.'"
Morris Day and The Time: "Contrary to rumor, Morris Day & The Time will not be performing at the 'Great American State Fair.'"
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Stephen Miller, the nation’s chief xenophobe, posted this ignorant, hateful nonsense about James Talarico. Trans hate is central to the Trump regime’s agenda. It’s their go-to move in every setting now. But it should still be shocking to us that a senior WH official trafficks in such slop.
Stephen Miller calls Talarico transgender because Miller is an asshole
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/05/2026
🦫 OREGON: Democrats have the votes to draw out Rep. Cliff Bentz’s (R) seat, in theory. But the Oregon state legislature allows the minority party to effectively shut down any proceeding by running away. They would need a supermajority to get past that hurdle, and that seems unlikely.
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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I got inside the "Great Israel Real Estate Event" at Park East Synagogue on Tuesday evening. Everyone's talking about what happened outside. Here's what I saw inside: ads for illegal settlements and defiant scorn for international law via @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/05/05/z...
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Mamdani Condemns NYC Expo Promoting Property Sales in Israeli West Bank Settlements
Past real estate expos that included illegal Israeli settlements have come under scrutiny for discrimination — and led to violent confrontations.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/05/2026
Pope Leo’s message to Trump ain’t subtle. He just appointed a former undocumented immigrant as the new Bishop of W Virginia. Same day, he named a Howard University chaplain as auxiliary bishop, who’s been clear: Trump’s attacks on DEI are a dangerous “regression” in the fight for racial equality.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/05/2026
thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 03/05/2026
OHSU has kicked off formal negotiations with the National Institutes of Health on the future of the Oregon National Primate Research Center.
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Sanctuary plan for OHSU’s controversial primate research center faces uphill battle
OHSU has kicked off formal negotiations with the National Institutes of Health on the future of the Oregon National Primate Research Center.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 02/05/2026
SoFi Stadium workers threaten to strike if ICE isn't banned from World Cup games
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SoFi Stadium workers threaten to strike if ICE isn't banned from World Cup games
Protestors marched to local FIFA organizing offices in Los Angeles on Friday calling for ICE to be banned from SoFi Stadium during World Cup games.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/05/2026
The cut to SSI for families who also rely on SNAP was not the Social Security Administration’s idea, even though that agency runs the SSI program. Instead, it was initiated by top White House and DOGE officials last year, ProPublica has learned.
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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Checking in about my oversight at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. Here’s what we saw: Oversight is working and forcing accountability. It is painfully clear that access to justice in this country is not guaranteed. And as we’ve always known: DETAINING CHILDREN IS IMMORAL. Full stop.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This entire thing is ridiculous.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/04/2026
A former North Carolina police officer was arrested in Florida after law enforcement authorities determined that he had planned to travel to a large festival in New Orleans to carry out a mass shooting and “commit suicide by cop,” officials said.
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Ex-Police Officer Planned Mass Shooting in New Orleans, Officials Say
Christopher Gillum had targeted a large festival there, the authorities said. He was arrested on Wednesday in a Florida hotel room before he could carry out his plans.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/04/2026
Breaking News: The Supreme Court will consider whether Catholic preschools in Colorado that decline to enroll families with LGBTQ parents can get state funding.
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Justices to Hear Case on Catholic Preschools That Reject Children of Gay Parents
Catholic preschools in Colorado that decline to enroll families with L.G.B.T.Q. children or parents sued to participate in a state-funded program.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 19/04/2026
BREAKING: Eight children were killed in an "extensive" mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, police say. The suspected shooter is also dead.
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8 children killed in Louisiana mass shooting
The alleged gunman was killed after a police chase, according to police.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
NEW: Chicago Progressive Partnership super PAC, which launched ads attacking Kat Abughazaleh and then eventually in favor of Bushra Amiwala as an apparent attempt to split the vote, has filed its FEC report, which reveals it was another shell group for AIPAC and its allies
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14/04/2026
Body camera video released Monday shows a St. Louis police officer shoot a 17-year-old in the back of the head as he fled, contradicting an earlier police statement that the teen pointed a gun at officers.
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Bodycam video contradicts St. Louis police's earlier account in fatal shooting of 17-year-old
Body camera video released Monday shows a St. Louis police officer shoot a 17-year-old in the back of the head as he fled, contradicting an earlier police statement that the teen pointed a gun at officers.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.
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