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Amy P.

@amyephillips.bsky.social
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Appellate public defender. Broadway superfan. #FOIA nerd. #DCStatehood 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 😷 She/her. Personal account. (@amyeph from Twitter)

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 05/10/2026
My client and I to MPR about this phenomenon. Two other attorneys are quoted talking about their client as well. We're not going to let ICE get away with making a mockery of court orders like this. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...
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Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic
Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
Proposal	Favor or oppose
Favor	Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices	89	10
Limited terms for justices	79	21
Increase number of justices	53	47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I, too, feel revulsion over recent events. But part of me also feels anger that so few people even seem aware of the fact that Trump carried out 13 executions in the last 6 months of his first term. I was in Terre Haute, IN for all of them. And for much of that time, they felt utterly invisible.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We absolutely should be horrified by reports of planned public executions and see them as an overt re-embrace of spectacle lynchings--while also understanding that the story of the "modern" death penalty in this country is inextricable from that history, rooted in racial violence & white supremacy.
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Alabama’s Lynching Memorial and the Legacy of Racial Terror in the South
At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, the historical link between lynching and the death penalty is hard to miss.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.
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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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speedway22.bsky.social @speedway22.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Guardian just reported that there were 50,000 ICE ‘arrests’ in July, this is escalating rapidly and DHS is trying to be quieter about it now www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE arrested 50,000 people in July – quietly the biggest month in Trump’s second term
Administration moved away from high-profile raids that defined immigration enforcement approach last year but still deported record number of people
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton is credited in at least 37 research papers on the COVID vaccine, including the first phase I trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Officials are force-feeding hunger strikers in ICE detention One detainee told Jose Olivares that after being shackled & forced to take a gastronasal tube down his nose and throat, he would lay in his cell at night & “swallow his own blood” ✏️ José Olivares for @theguardian.com
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‘TORTURE’: New report exposes force-feeding in ICE detention centers
According to an investigation by The Guardian’s Jose Olivares, detainees are being force-fed in some ICE detention centers. Similar cases span over a decade, but the administration’s “aggressive crack...
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...
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Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science
Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.
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Amy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Then again, I’m not sure the Tribune understands how adjectives work, either.
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Amy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I’m not sure you understand how adjectives work.
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Amy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
No, he’s a musical bomb-thrower. You can tell by the use of the modifier “musical” in front of the phrase.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 05/07/2026
ICE flights. Saturday, July 4, 2026. At least 85 flights on 28 planes. At least 12 removal flights, 6 to Mexico alone. One year ago today, ICE sent 8 men to South Sudan. Only 3 have been released. Still jailed: Enrique Arias-Hierro, Kyaw Mya, Nyo Myint, Thongxay Nilakout & José Rodriguez-Quiñones.
An ADSBx map of the Americas showing 28 planes doing dozens of flights branching out from Louisiana and Texas toward northern cities (round-up flights), Central America (removal flights), and going between ICE detention hubs (shuffle flights).
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
2/2 And while I'm at it: Reminder that DC has more residents than two entire states w total of 3 Reps and 4 US Senators (WY and VT, closing in on ND). We pay *more* federal tax per capita than any other jurisdiction—really, top even NY and CA. And have zero vote in Congress. Statehood for DC.
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Amy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Friendly amendment: the inside should be a Burger King-style paper crown that she can actually wear.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/06/2026
BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.
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More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing
Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.
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Amy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Then it sounds like the Court should change their procedures to vet those summaries for accuracy, tone, etc., so that everyone signing on is in agreement.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And make no mistake, when the Klan was ranting about unassimilable immigrants in the 1920s, they were very much talking about Italians whom they attacked as Catholic pawns of the pope, as a "criminal race" whose members were all tied to the mafia, and as a non-white threat to white women.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Meanwhile, here’s how Ohio’s governor, a Republican, responded to today’s decision.
X post from Jonathan Martin: Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued the following statement on the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in Mullin v. Doe, regarding Temporary Protected Status (TPS):

"Today, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling allowing Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to be canceled or expire.   

"Today’s decision is a legal decision.  As I have stated in the past, the policy to remove these individuals from this country is a mistake.

"As a result of today’s ruling, the over 10,000 Haitians who have been living in Ohio (mostly in the Springfield area) legally through TPS will now be here illegally and will be subject to immediate deportation. This also means that while these Haitians were working and contributing to our community and economy yesterday, today it is now illegal to employ them."The situation in Haiti could hardly be much worse.  The violent gangs run most of the country.  The government barely functions.  And, the economy is in shambles.
"Further, our federal government has an advisory against traveling to Haiti, and our Federal Aviation Administration prohibits U.S. carriers from flying there because of the danger to planes of being shot at by the gangs. 

"But, more importantly, changing the immigration status of these individuals is not in the best interest of the United States nor Ohio."
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
9 years ago, NBC gave this woman $20 million a year to host a morning talk show and be one of the top faces of its news division.
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ACLU of Massachusetts @aclum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is a devastating decision for our cherished Haitian and Syrian communities in Massachusetts and across the country. SCOTUS ignored the blatant racism that has always motivated this administration's horrific treatment of Haitians, including the decision to revoke TPS. apnews.com/article/immi...
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The Supreme Court lets the Trump administration end legal protections for Haitians and Syrians
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to pot...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
With seven decisions with the *same* 6-3 lineup over the last three days, I really can't wait for all of the hot takes from the folks who keep insisting that #SCOTUS *isn't* defined by its ideological division.
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Amy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
And new memberships are open for the first time in a couple of years!
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 23/06/2026
Hilary Cass climbed out from under the bridge she calls home to tell the BBC there's no evidence of any harms to trans young people from puberty blockers. Infuriating! Evan Urquhart has more here: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Hilary Cass Admits Finding No Evidence of Harm From Puberty Blockers - Assigned Media
The report Dr. Cass authored, which claimed the research base was insufficient to prove a benefit of puberty blockers but found no harms from treatment, has been a key factor in the denial of care for...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
NEW: Colorado prison officials and judges are largely violating the spirit of the state's restrictions on solitary confinement. A package of reforms passed over the last decade but the state is still subjecting people with severe mental illness to these torturous conditions. An important read:
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Colorado Limited Solitary for People with Mental Illness. But Judges Still Routinely Approve It.  - Bolts
Despite a 2021 law meant to curb solitary confinement in local jails, judges almost always grant requests to isolate people with serious mental illness, often because there's nowhere else to send them...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
there's something remarkable how on a scientific level we're performing what would essentially be miracles and on a cultural/political level, we're going in reverse
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is the one where they prisoner had a 5th Cir. decision *in his hand* that said prison officials could not cut off his locs, and they threw it in the trash along with his locs. Today SCOTUS holds he cannot sue to be compensated for this clear and obvious violation of his constitutional rights.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 23/06/2026
I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo
Kurt Vonnegut's asshole drawingAnthropic's Claude logo
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Stephen Miller was reportedly the driving force behind the DOJ's recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care
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Stephen Miller Said to Drive DOJ Memo Eroding Disability Rights
White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind the Justice Department’s recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based ca...
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Amy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I mean, it’s actually lots of people. Most women at some point in their lives are taught that they should carry their car keys in a way that allows them to be used as a bladed weapon. So yeah, about half the population thinks about their car keys as a knife, unfortunately.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
It’s a lot more than this. But, also, it’s this. www.lawdork.com/p/kennedy-ce...
It was what a resigned, petty loss looks like.

[Photo of the front of the Kennedy Center with the white tarp still there. You can see “THE JOHN F. [TARP] MING ARTS” there.]

But, it was also what a win looks like.
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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Israel kidnapped Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from his post as the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital over 500 days ago. Now, it’s holding him in solitary confinement. Israel is holding Dr. Abu Safiya captive without any charges. That’s a war crime.
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Israel puts Palestinian doctor in solitary confinement after 17 months held without charge
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya now in cell barely big enough to sit in, says son, after UN experts demanded his release in March
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Cops busting through a barricade that they set up is pretty tough to misinterpret.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 31/05/2026
The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents. And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all. It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!
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Amy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Or maybe he’ll get really into musicals!
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jackie techila @jackietechila.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
death camps in all but name "Nine of the deaths were of Hispanic men who had arrived in the U.S. from four countries, the AP found. One man was a Chinese citizen. Their average age was 32. [...] seven of the 10 had no record of violent crimes in the U.S."
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ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an 'alarming' rate, an AP investigation finds
Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees are taking their own lives at a pace that’s unprecedented in the agency’s two-decade history, highlighting what experts call failures in care and oversigh...
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Amy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
And he has comments turned off so he can complain about people who are just on social media “talking to themselves” without anyone replying.
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Amy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Also just, I don’t want to socialize with Nazis. I educate myself about Nazis and monitor news about what they’re doing. But this is “social” media. I don’t want to socialize with them. If that’s a “bubble,” so is refusing to be friends in real life.
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Amy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 24/05/2026
The first known sanction of its kind held CoreCivic responsible for destroying video in a case alleging wrongful death of an ICE detainee.
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Judge Sanctioned Private Prison Giant for Destroying Evidence in ICE Death Suit
In a wrongful death suit about an ICE detainee, a judge wrapped CoreCivic responsible for destroying video — the first-known such sanction.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.
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No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says
The agency’s analysis contradicts claims made by former vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad.
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