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ariel gordon

@arielgordon.bsky.social
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Dog person. Cat person. Now old enough to be a bird person. She/they.

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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One of the cruelest parts of our criminal legal system is the way it casually steals time from people. Even if wrongful conviction compensation were easily accessible and closer to adequate, it cannot give someone back the years we’ve stolen.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Especially since DOCs have spent years learning how to create paper trails that shield them from liability and courts are inherently distrustful of incarcerated people. It’s a fiction people use to justify their apathy about conditions inside more than a right actually afforded those we incarcerate.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Making it so abusive pieces of shit no longer waltzed through life with the impunity to do whatever they want to whoever they feel they have power over wouldn’t solve all society’s problems but it would be a good start.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I just can't believe that he was an adult in charge of a whole ass country and yet we ended up here:
Former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau wearing jeans, a white tshirt and a backwards ball cap sits next to Katy Perry wearing a white tshirt, black shorts/skirt and black boots with white socks sticking out of the top at Coachella. Trudeau is eating noodles from a yellow takeout container using chopsticks and they both have red dixie cups. His cup is balanced on his knee, hers is in her hand.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And how did she get verified today? What is going on?
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The only way the logic of this holds together even a little bit is if you think trans people are not a protected category. If any other minority group was told to "enjoy the camps" it would be moderated as targeted hate speech. This is shameful.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New Democratic politician gets attention and rises in the polls due to moral clarity and refusal to abandon their principles or people, then throws that all away in a vain pivot to chasing Republican voters. Then they lose in the general election. A tale as old as fucking time.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Similar to Italian where someone is missing from you vs. English where you miss someone. I've always though those described two fundamentally different emotions.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
And there's no real check on spending because most politicians don't understand tech and don't want to be seen as unwilling to spend to protect cops. A company claiming their tech will make policing safer/easier for cops can basically print money by hiring a former cop to sell their product.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What are they going to do? Help him plan his own J6 at FIFA headquarters?
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
But then she ended up dating/marrying Ben Harper, so honestly I think things worked out for the best for her.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A lot of them can vote. Access is an issue though. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/04/14/i...
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A Fraction of Rikers Detainees Vote. NYC Wants to Make it Easier.
Lawmakers say absentee voting is failing in city jails.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
What if we even had some instructions for how to remove a tyrant from power written in some of our founding documents? That would be incredibly helpful - all written out for you and everything and all you have to do is use the power you ran for office to hold. Ah, well, nevertheless.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I don’t understand how you could be a lawyer who works with criminal defendants or incarcerated people and *not* be an abolitionist.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The AI industry is just dumb bitches paying other dumb bitches millions of dollars to tell them “exactlyyyy”.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Yep. democracyforward.org/work/investi...
democracyforward.org
The Denaturalization of U.S. Citizens
Background The Trump-Vance administration is reportedly accelerating an effort, started during Trump’s first term, to strip Americans of their citizenship. The administration’s denaturalization…
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
And no one gets to act surprised because they have explicitly stated this is a goal: truthout.org/articles/tru...
truthout.org
Trump Administration Sets Goal to Denaturalize Thousands of US Citizens in 2026
Immigration officials have reportedly issued guidance setting a quota of 100 to 200 denaturalization cases a month.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
What if it happens while he's at the SCOTUS oral args? Maximum hilarity and the stodgy legal reporters will make sure it is reported accurately.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
SURJ has (so far) endorsed only three candidates for the 2026 elections (surj.org/2026-election/) and the guy with the Nazi tattoo is one of them. That’s sure a choice.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I am convinced a candidate of any party running on a platform of actual digital security and data privacy and making it safe to answer your phone again would put up Reagan against Mondale numbers in the electoral college.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The one person I can think of who would go for this is Elon, but only if it helped him look like he was better at the game than he actually was.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 03/03/2026
This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned
A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Honestly think many have bought into the prosperity gospel bullshit and they think hoarding wealth is all they need to show god’s favor. To them, that alone proves they will go to heaven.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Blocks by Sam isn’t quite tetris - you place the pieces into the grid rather than them falling down, but it’s a similar vibe, free and has no ads. apps.apple.com/us/app/block...
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Block Puzzle by Sam App - App Store
Download Block Puzzle by Sam by Ad Artis on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Block Puzzle by Sam.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
It is still incredible to me that the club lucked into having Kane come up through the academy and prime Sonny for a decade and instead of using that to build a sports dynasty, this is where we are.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Approximately 70% of the district court judges: the government is lying and disobeying our orders Sam Altman: I consulted my hallucinating oracle and it said the government is good and also their checks always clear.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
His latest is somehow worse? He doesn’t even think the Senate should have a say in whether or not the US wages war?
A tweet from Fetterman’s Senate Twitter account sharing an Axios article about Dems demanding a war powers vote. 

The text of the tweet reads: 
Committed Democrat here.
I’m a hard no. 
My vote is Operation Epic Fury. 🇺🇸
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
John McCain even sang a jaunty song about it.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
So because two aging despots are desperate to avoid accountability for their lifetimes of corruption and predation (and frankly, just because they like killing), we just started a war for made up reasons and immediately killed a bunch of children. Everyone involved in this needs to face justice.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"Everyone deserves a nice life" turned out to be a winning message to voters.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
And the safety that exists in those cities did not just happen. It was fought for and won after years of struggle, and we should support the people who are fighting that fight in different places now.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It is both true that a letter on an ID document can never define you and that having ID that matches gender presentation is safety and privacy for (some) trans folks. Kansas cannot invalidate anyone's identity, but they are trying to take away their safety and privacy.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 26/02/2026
Every trans Kansan's license is being invalidated. Assigned projected this as a consequence of the law as written. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Kansas Bill Will Strip Driver’s Licenses from Every Trans Resident Who Changed Gender — Assigned
As Kansas passes a bathroom bill, another bill that will invalidate the driver’s license of every trans resident has been deemphasized in the coverage. Also, Trump’s Department of Education says San J...
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Also, because the state senate in PA is permafucked, the expectations of him actually working to get meaningful legislation that the left/center-left wants is nonexistent. We absolutely cannot afford a president whose only experience/instinct is to compromise and make deals with republicans.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I remember being in Italy once talking to someone who clearly lived there and spoke fluent Italian and another person came up and interrupted our conversation to warn me and my friends about the person because they were actually Albanian and not really Italian.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This combines the flat bottom for scraping with a scoop, but the angle on the handle isn't quite normal spoon like the original: www.oxo.com/oxo-gg-sheet...
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Sheet Pan Scoop
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
And often in the ruling class bigotry is integral to their origin story/source of wealth and power, so rigid in a different way.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
“Bowman’s extensive criminal history consists of out-of-state incidents, including felony convictions for rape, attempted aggravated robbery and kidnapping, among others.” So her parent/guardian consented to (or forced) her marriage to a rapist when she was a child?
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The last two words take it from "yeah, that sounds about right" to "what in the sweet fried fuck"
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
How do you make your polenta? I make a veg version of this (use peppers, onion, mushrooms and veg sausage) and finish the polenta with some butter to add richness that balances out the sauce.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Yet another example of the inhumanity of Kavanaugh Stops. If federal agents refuse to accept the validity of your documentation, you end up in hell.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
And where was the water?
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Uncanny valley nonsense.
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ariel gordon @arielgordon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
We are doing so much damage to kids right now (on top of the trauma of shootings and everything else) and so few with power seem to care or even notice.
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