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Annie

@anniecov.bsky.social
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Cat enthusiast, lover of fiber arts, hater of cops. Cincinnati, OH

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not an ideal person to be in charge of the food and drug administration
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
To be a broken record, this is another example of the ways that DHS uses enforced disappearance as a way to facilitate immigration enforcement. We need enforced disappearance legislation in this country. Thread. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They are all terrible, but Stephen Miller is determined to be impressively evil.
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
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The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders
Judges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 16/09/2026
Big lawsuit filed by the family of Tierra Walker, who died of preeclampsia at 20 weeks pregnant after being denied abortion care. Argues Texas' abortion bans violate the state constitution's right to life and should be struck down. More soon on @autonomynews.co abortioninamerica.org/wp-content/u...
screenshot from page 60 of the complaint:
Not one of Ms. Walker’s medical providers sought to rely on the exception to Texas’s abortion bans or offered Ms. Walker’s life-saving abortion. To the extent Ms. Walker’s medical providers believed that she was never sick enough to qualify for the exception, Texas’s abortion bans, combined with the associated definitions of “abortion,” “reasonable medical judgment,” and “medical emergency,” are unconstitutionally vague in violation of the due course of law provision of Article I, Section 19 and thus unenforceable. See Paxton v. Annunciation House, Inc., 719 S.W.3d at 589.
208. In addition, to the extent Texas’s abortion bans and associated definitions were a proximate cause of Ms. Walker’s death, they violated her right to life under the Texas Constitution and are unconstitutional. Vernon’s Tex. Civ. Stats. ch. 6-1/2; Tex. Health & Safety Code §§ 170A.001-170A.007; Tex. Health & Safety Code §§ 171.201-171.212; Tex. Health & Safety Code § 245.002.
209. Finally, to the extent Texas’s statutory scheme, taken as a whole, cumulatively denied Ms. Walker her right to life without due process of law, Texas violated her right to life under the Texas Constitution

https://abortioninamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Walker-Petition.pdf
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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 10/09/2026
Once again we are pleading with Democratic politicians to stop tiptoeing around the idea of reforming an institution that your voters hate
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Democrats Who Are Still Afraid of Supreme Court Expansion Need to Grow Up
Democrats are finally grasping that their voters do not like the Supreme Court and do not want to be represented by politicians who defend it.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The GOP wants trans folks dead and the democrats ... are just helping them out. No language for how appalling.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Everybody everybody everybody should be so terrified of how little these "healthcare" institutions give a fuck about health.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Unsettling to live through an era where Truly Bad, as in real Nazi stuff, is treated as not actually bad, mostly a curiosity, just another policy, look what you made them do, while what gets the up-in-arms treatment is minor scandal, titillation, someone said something about what someone else said.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 05/09/2026
this and the mt sinai trans care thing are both so nakedly contemptuous that they feel designed to get you down at a crucial time when you Cannot Let The Fuckers Get You Down
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/09/2026
thinking about all the young people who left ban states and came to New York for care, and now
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’ll have more to post on this later but a) please feel free to subscribe to read the whole thing (there’s quite a bit), & b) my thesis is simple: Right now, the most urgent moral test for this nation today is happening in Springfield, Ohio We as a country are currently failing this test miserably
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/08/2026
And as I've been tracking, it's been eight months since Trump admitted a single refugee into the United States (Biden admitted 100,060 in 2024; white people from South Africa don't count.) There is now no longer a legal path for non-white people to become a U.S. permanent resident or citizen.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19/08/2026
Glad to see some reporting on this. When I first posted on July 17 about these incidents where an airline worker is asked or tricked into helping ICE, person who told me was too afraid of being identifiable for me to report it out. Bottom line: If you are not a citizen, do not use US air travel rn.
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com
I saw video this week from another major airport of a woman being taken by plainclothes ICE after an airline worker paged them to the ticket counter.
Worker clearly didn't know it was ICE asking them to page and was upset. They follow, asking ICE for a warrant & woman who they can call for her.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
not saying federal immigration enforcement in any form should disappear tomorrow but if you leave this entity intact, and tinker at the edges and give them a stern talking to, however well meaning you are, you’re leaving these weapons and this orgy of abuses and masked thuggery intact for the next…
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15/08/2026
One of the men ICE sent to a prison in Eswatini is being released soon, but he’ll be sent to a country where he as a gay man will not be safe. He’ll need to leave ASAP. Ohio Immigrant Alliance is raising funds to help Issa get on his feet somewhere else. ohioimmigrant.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/he...
ohioimmigrant.app.neoncrm.com
Help Issa Start Over in a Safe Place
Issa is outgoing, justice-minded, and loves people from every background. For most of his life, he called the United States home, and Cincinnati is where he feels safest. But today, he sits in a maxim...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
they're really trying to k*ll me (and patrick) ((and, when he sees this, @jaywillis.net))
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
understanding that this group of people is included within the tally of "unauthorized" immigrants was a bit of a blackpill moment for me www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Congress has rarely directly addressed the reality that millions of so-called “unauthorized” immigrants are, in fact, actively complying with the requirements of the U.S. government. When legislators attempted to pass immigration reform, during the second terms of both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, they did so on the same premise as in 1986: retroactive legalization for the people who were “living in the shadows,” in exchange for more enforcement to stop other people from coming in. Since 2014, with a single exception—passing a law during the first Trump Administration that legalized a few thousand Liberian immigrants—representatives have sat on their hands and let the executive branch take the flak.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I wrote this because I fear too many people do not understand what survivors go through, and what they do to survive. And because I fear too many people will buy Miller’s story. I truly hope they don’t. I also hope you will read, share, and… Believe survivors. 3/3 dot-connecting.ghost.io/on/
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On Max Miller’s dinner
Believing survivors means understanding that survivors do many things to keep themselves safe — including cook dinner for their abusers.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
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Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC
Our Team
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 17/07/2026
fuck em up Todd
Screenshot from Mark's article about a recent ruling by Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins, reading as follows:

The Roberts court, Eddins declared, “sees only white. It refuses to acknowledge who the Equal Protection Clause was written to protect. The freed people, their descendants, and all others denied equal citizenship. It turns its back on what is in plain sight. The Fourteenth Amendment is not colorblind. It never was.” He continued:

The court calls the Constitution colorblind while engineering the dilution of Black votes, the unraveling of hard-fought civil rights remedies, and the erasure of Black history. That is not blindness. That is white sight, by design. A Constitution interpreted this way is not colorblind. It is whatever the court needs it to be. A way to advance its partisan project.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I had a very genuine whole body physical reaction to reading this
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero weren't murdered because of car pursuits. They were murdered because the men driving those cars felt comfortable recklessly killing. None of this ends until we shut down ICE completely.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13/07/2026
With two people dead in Memphis in four days and one the same week in Houston, that's four people federal agents have shot and killed over just nine days. July 5: Tyrin Johnson July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo July 8: Alfonso Ivy July 13: name not released yet
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The secret police who have lied about every person they’ve senselessly killed in the streets have once again lied about a person they senselessly killed in the streets.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“.. part of a growing number of similar violent interactions involving civilians and immigration agents. More than 20 people have been shot at since September, nearly all of them in their cars.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Agree. We’ve been reporting lately on ICE ramping back up to 11, but the trump administration is trying to do it without Minnesota type headlines. The secret police are trying to be more… secret
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/07/2026
Reuters confirms. 11 more people captured by ICE have been sent to a maximum security prison in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a country where they have no ties and committed no crimes. reut.rs/4wpbIGU
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Eleven more Trump deportees arrive in Eswatini from the United States, lawyer says
Eleven more migrants deported by the Trump administration under a ​policy of sending them to third ‌countries arrived in Eswatini from the United States on Wednesday, a U.S. lawyer following the case ...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Read my latest:
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We didn’t need a rape accusation to know Graham Platner was unfit
Despite months of red flags, his allies insisted he was the vision of positive masculinity the party needed.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/07/2026
This was over for me with the tattoo, but it definitely should have been over for anyone who sincerely believes in the equality of women and marginalized genders when we heard that he forcibly locked his ex in a closet. That some people needed even more than that tells on them.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
a victim's statement is evidence.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 03/07/2026
The headlines celebrating birthright citizenship as a "win" are driving me insane. When the Supreme Court is controlled by a six-justice conservative supermajority, a "win" for the liberals just means that a very fragile status quo gets to survive for a little longer.
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The Supreme Court Keeps Inviting Trump to Get More Ambitious
The justices don’t give Trump everything he wants. But they are very comfortable giving him a lot.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Just can't share & emphasize this sentiment enough: ICE has been kidnapping our neighbors in greater & greater numbers. The narrative of mass deportation having suffered a decisive defeat in Minneapolis is flatly wrong; kidnappings, inhumane detention, & deportations continue & are increasing.
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chelsea bridge @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
the use of the word is intentional click
white house press release titled "Supreme Court
Bolsters President
Trump's Push to Eliminate
Transgender Insanity"
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 30/06/2026
Moving Justice Jackson concurrence invoking Frederick Douglass on memory. "The distortion of historical facts—retellings that reimagine and repurpose past events to lend credence to misbegotten aims—may be an even greater threat."
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026
Yeah. The Birthright Citizenship win *is* a win, but the fact that it wasn't 9-0 should worry you and the fact that it was a split decision should TERRIFY AND MOTIVATE YOU.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Kagan points out in the dissent here that Alito is too much of a coward to even put Trump’s supposedly non-racist statements in his opinion.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/06/2026
one of the most heinous atrocities of the last 150 years. up there with the worst dictators in history
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/06/2026
This statement is extraordinary and it makes me feel both sick to my stomach, knowing what has happened to him, and deeply sorrowful.
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Annie @anniecov.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Horrifying.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/06/2026
If you are looking for a way to help the folks in Minneapolis, a member of the National Lawyer's Guild passed along this fundraiser for legal costs for those arrested yesterday: chuffed.org/project/1865... You can also donate directly to the NLG: www.paypal.com/donate?token...
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Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers
On the morning of June 16th 2026, fifteen anti-ICE organizers were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
They tried to hide but I got em anyway
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Aubrey Nagle @aubsn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
IMHO this is the most obvious point at which Objective Journalism fails to meet this moment. "Conspiracy" is the bad-faith public frame used to provide cover for racist policy. Such Journalism can only report on racism if someone admits they're racist, not if they simply say it's something else.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026
a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place* this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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The Delaney Hall Strike Is Exposing a Massive Thirteenth Amendment Crisis
The Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Totally fucking outrageous conditions at Delaney Hall, whose owner is trying to claim qualified immunity in court. prospect.org/2026/06/08/i...
The day before her successful election, Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) conducted an oversight visit and met with some of the people inside, including one man whom a guard hit in the face as part of a beatdown to break the strike, which sent multiple detainees to the hospital. Instead of bringing the man back to Unit 2, where most of the strikers are imprisoned, guards put him in solitary confinement for four days, Mejia said. She also said guards are threatening strikers with transfers to Louisiana and slashing visitations from one hour, three to four times a week, to half an hour just once a week. She also said that GEO staff are denying detainees access to their mail unless they have a certain amount of money in their commissary account.

GEO staff have targeted Martin Soto in particular, the prisoner whom ICE suspects of leading the hunger and labor strike and whose wife, Gabriela, has organized protests outside Delaney Hall. Guards threw him in solitary confinement, then violently transferred him to a different ICE facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where Mejia witnessed deep bruising on his wrist, arm, bicep, and ankles. He told her that a guard said he was moved because his wife was a “troublemaker.”

Mejia has created a spreadsheet to document medical neglect in New Jersey’s detention sites. Both the Associated Press and KFF Health News have recently reported that such neglect is rife in ICE concentration camps across the country. Mejia met one detainee whose dentures were either lost or broken and who now has no way to chew solid food.

“He’s been there for four months with no teeth, and all they feed him is Ensure and soft foods,” she said, referring to a type of meal replacement drink. “They won’t take him to a dentist to get dentures.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
there's a real feeling of like...if a man did something horrible to me or someone i know that guys like this just wouldn't fucking care
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