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Proudly B of LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, (DEIA) Advocate. Parent. ❤️

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ACLU @aclu.org · 13/01/2026
Members of Congress have the right to visit ICE facilities unannounced — it's their job and their constitutional responsibility. ICE can’t hide their cruelty and mistreatment of immigrants just because they want to.
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Reps. Omar, Morrison, Craig denied entry at ICE detention facility
The Minnesota congresswomen attempted to tour Whipple Federal Building. DHS says requests to visit are needed seven days in advance.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 13/01/2026
We're at the Supreme Court today defending trans kids' freedom to play the sports they love. Politicians are hoping to use this issue to legitimize their effort to push transgender people out of public life — we won’t allow it. This case is about more than a game.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself. Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/01/2026
We refuse to tolerate ICE’s lawless attacks on our communities. Call on Congress to block any additional funding for ICE at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks-
Someone in a protest on a city street holds a sign that says "ICE endangers all of us."Someone at a protest holds up a sign that says "New York City stands with Minneapolis!"Someone holds up a photo of the Statue of Liberty on which is written "We welcome immigrants. ICE is un-American."A sign is held up in front of tall buildings that says "ICE FUERA AHORA AHORA AHORA".
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
ICE murdered and smeared an innocent woman and now Trump's cronies are TRYING TO PROSECUTE HER WIFE www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
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3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
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Anna Aagenes (she/her) @annalinaaa.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Our immigrant communities need us all to stand up for them! Learn how to take action at Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “Solidarity & Rapid Response: a 2-part training on showing up for immigrant communities” www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
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Solidarity & Rapid Response: a 2-part training on showing up for immigrant communities · Showing Up for Racial Justice
Across the country, immigrant communities are under attack and authoritarian forces are gaining ground. But there’s a growing movement of people ready to take action with clarity, courage, and discipl...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/07/2025
Helen Keller was an activist, author, and educator who championed the rights of people with disabilities and co-founded the ACLU.
A graphic featuring a black and white photo of Helen Keller on the left. She wears her hair in a bun and a white top. On the right, a quote in large purple text reads: “I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.” Below the quote, in smaller purple text, is Keller’s title: “Author, activist, and co-founder of the ACLU.” In the bottom right corner is a blue box with the text “Disability Pride Month” in purple. In the bottom left corner is the ACLU logo in purple.
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Anna Aagenes (she/her) @annalinaaa.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
As an alum and former Penn athlete, I’m disappointed in @upenn.bsky.social. Trans girls and women belong in sports!
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ESPN @espn.com · 01/07/2025
The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women's sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case.
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Penn to ban trans athletes, ending Thomas case
The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women's sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case.
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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“don’t be a passive observer of the decline of society…you’ll sleep better at night if you’re trying.” @ayanaeliza.bsky.social on We Can Do Hard Things
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Bring back Kilmar Abrego García... NOW. 🧵(1 of 6)
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Anna Aagenes (she/her) @annalinaaa.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“This is immediate death to thousands of small businesses.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/p...
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Her Business Was Thriving. Then Came the Tariffs.
An interview with Beth Benike, who fears for the survival of her small business under Trump’s tariffs.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/04/2025
The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would make it much harder for millions of people to register to vote. Tell your Senator to reject this harmful legislation.
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Stop the SAVE Act
The SAVE Act would keep millions of people from being able to vote – and would shut countless eligible voters out of our democracy. Urge Congress to vote no now.
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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This admin is turning on the firehose hoping you’ll burn out and give up. But you don’t have to do it all. Do one thing, take one step each day. Put your phone down. Take a walk. Find the thing that moves you and focus. If we all find our one thing, we’ll build something better—together.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/04/2025
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27
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South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.
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Anna Aagenes (she/her) @annalinaaa.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Such good news! These kids never should have been taken but grateful to know they’re no longer in ICE detention. “In this difficult time, the strength and compassion of our community have shone through to support our missing family and the entire school community.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/n...
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Mother and 3 Children Detained by ICE at Upstate N.Y. Farm Are Released (Gift Article)
The family was returned to New York after being taken into custody last month and held at a detention center in Texas, officials and advocates said.
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Dr. Rebecca Calisi-Rodríguez @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
He’s in 3rd grade. Same age as my son. ICE knocked on the wrong door. No crime. No reason. He was handcuffed. Detained. He’s 8 years old. This should shatter you. It should enrage you. No matter your politics, NO ONE should be okay with this. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 06/04/2025
President Trump's executive actions are having real-world consequences for trans youth and the families who love them. No one should have to navigate court battles to access necessary medical care.
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The Human Toll of Trump's Anti-Trans Crusade | ACLU
President Donald Trump’s assault on transgender rights is a gross overreach of presidential power and yet another attempt to punish trans people just for existing.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/04/2025
We’re in court today defending Rümeysa Öztürk's right to free speech after she was snatched off the street for an op-ed she wrote. The Trump administration’s retaliation against international students for their protected speech is unconstitutional — we’re fighting back.
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025
100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!
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Indivisible Manhattan ❌️ 👑 @indivisiblemanh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
We had a great time at the Hands Off! March in NYC, with 120K others, exercising our rights!
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greensponreads @needmoarcoffee1.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I'm gonna write a self-help book and call it, "Girl, Eat a Carb," and each page is just going to be advice on what to eat with which trauma. Pasta for heartbreak, donuts for work stress, cereal for friendship drama, bagels for an existential crisis, etc. Maybe some recipes.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/04/2025
BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/04/2025
The Trump administration claims that the Fourth Amendment permits them to search our electronic devices when we're at the border, regardless of whether they have a warrant. This week we urged an appeals court to reject that argument and protect our right to privacy.
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ACLU urges 2nd Circuit to rethink no-warrant cellphone searches at US border
The civil rights group likened searching personal digital devices to searching a home — or the contents of someone's mind.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sen. Cory Booker—a Black man—just BROKE segregationist Strom Thurmond's record for longest floor speech in US Senate history. Thurmond spoke for 24 hours 18 minutes in opposition to civil rights. Booker has now spoken for 24 hours and 19 minutes against Trump's abuses against Americans' rights.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker is STILL going. This is what resisting fascism looks like. I don’t care if it’s not a “real” filibuster. Booker is taking drastic action to show his constituents that they are not alone. More of this, please.
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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Senator Booker is still going 👊🇺🇸🔥 www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
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LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker
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a pink bunny wearing sunglasses is holding a drum with the words `` still going '' written on it .
Alt: a pink bunny wearing sunglasses is holding a drum with the words `` still going '' written on it .
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Anna Aagenes (she/her) @annalinaaa.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
He’s still going!! Thank you @booker.senate.gov and those who are supporting his marathon speech! THIS is what it means to meet the moment & standing up for American democracy 🇺🇸 youtube.com/live/v2utlMx...
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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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Immigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Last wk we filed a lawsuit to protect unaccompanied children's right to legal counsel after the Trump admin eliminated federal funding for legal rep. One client is a 16 yo who survived sex trafficking & fled her home country w/her baby to end the nightmare. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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Legal groups helping immigrant children who survived sex trafficking, abuse sue to regain federal funding
The children are being stripped of legal aid to help them stay in the U.S. just as their risk of deportation has increased under the Trump administration, according to groups.
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 01/04/2025
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/04/2025
Today is the day, Wisconsin! We have the opportunity to elect a pro-civil liberties majority to the state Supreme Court — and all of our rights, including our right to abortion care, hang in the balance.
A mustard yellow graphic with text inside green and navy blue shapes reading "Wisconsin voters: It's time to vote for your rights" and "Polls are open until 8:00 pm." A ballot box icon and a maroon outline of Wisconsin are also shown.
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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Each year on March 31, the world observes Transgender Day of Visibility to raise awareness about transgender people. It is a day to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people. Learn more at glaad.org/tdov
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ACLU of Massachusetts @aclum.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Nobody should be disappeared from the streets of Somerville – or anywhere in America. Everyone should be alarmed by the video of Rumesya Ozturk being handcuffed and taken away by agents. The government must immediately release her. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
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Federal immigration authorities detain Tufts graduate student - The Boston Globe
An eyewitness said masked plainclothes officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk outside a Somerville home.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
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Rep. Jerry Nadler @nadler.house.gov · 17/03/2025
As the Trump Administration brazenly defies federal court orders, America now faces its most perilous moment since the Civil War. My statement:
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 20/03/2025
A queer Venezuelan seeking asylum in the U.S. was deported and “disappeared” after immigration officials reportedly misinterpreted his tattoos as symbols for the violent Tren de Aragua gang, according to his legal team.
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Queer Venezuelan deported and 'disappeared' over mischaracterized tattoos, lawyer says
ICE agents claimed the tattoos signified membership in the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua, but his lawyers say they have deported an innocent artist.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
A few weeks ago, I argued in the Post that the Trump administration was ushering in a new era of re-segregation. Now, here we are. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/03/2025
We'll continue to argue that the administration is misusing a wartime policy to carry out their mass deportation agenda. Cruelty is not a policy solution — and this fight is not over.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/03/2025
Today is the last day that the State Department is taking public comments about its policy denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people. Tell the Trump administration to abandon this discriminatory action NOW.
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Hands Off Our Passports: Stop Attacking Transgender Americans
The Trump administration is denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people – so I’m joining the ACLU to fight back. Urge the State Department to reject this dangerous attack on ou...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/03/2025
Utah could soon become the first state in the country to ban Pride flags from all public property. LGBTQ people are here to stay, and no amount of hateful legislation can change that.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16/03/2025
Schumer’s failure to lead in this critical moment was a betrayal of the Democratic Party, its voters, and our democracy. We need a Senate Minority Leader who will actually fight back against Trump, not fold to him. The stakes are too high for failed leadership. Make sure your senators hear from you.
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Email Your Democratic Senator and Demand They Call on Senator Schumer to Step Aside
On March 14, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer failed to stand up against Donald Trump’s power grab. Instead of using the leverage Senate Democrats had, he caved—paving the way for extreme funding ...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14/03/2025
In a total betrayal of their constituents and our democracy, 10 Democrats just voted with Senate Republicans to give Trump and Musk a blank check to continue their coup. @schumer.senate.gov led Democrats to this total surrender. We need strong leadership, not cowards who cave at any GOP pressure.
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
You know people are furious when they show up at an 8am protest at @schumer.senate.gov house. Chuck you are betraying us. It’s not too late to change your mind and actually fight back! @indivisible.org @socialists.nyc @riseandresist.bsky.social @marisakabas.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social
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Anna Aagenes (she/her) @annalinaaa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
#FreeMahmoudKhalil! @5calls.org can we add this as a call to action?
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Anna Aagenes (she/her) @annalinaaa.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
MORE OF THIS. Thank you @algreen.house.gov!! 🇺🇸 #DefendDemocracy
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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 02/03/2025
Claudette Colvin was 15 when she defied segregation #OTD in 1955 by refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus — 9 months before Rosa Parks did the same. A court put her on probation & she was branded a troublemaker for her activism. #TheMarchContinues
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
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