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@chrstimm90.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈 He/Him | Lifelong learner from New England, with a passion for sharing and exploring new ideas.

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
They know it.
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David Fahrenthold @fahrenthold.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
NEW TONIGHT: The IRS says that churches can now endorse candidates from the pulpit, carving out an exemption to the decades-old ban on politicking by nonprofits. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
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I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
An I the only person alarmed that the U.S. military thinks a “show of presence” of heavily armed soldiers in a park in Los Angeles where kids play soccer is just fine and dandy?
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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Chris @chrstimm90.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Fascism is arriving a lot faster than I was expecting
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Mennost @mennowitteveen.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
VP Vance has cast the deciding vote in the Senate to cut Medicaid, take away food assistance, blow up the deficit, and add tax breaks for the wealthiest. This bill is unpopular because it is wrong. Congress votes this week, but it’s our voices - and our votes - that will have the final say.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2025
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
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SarahBCalif @sarahbca.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Project 2025 called for cutting FEMA and disaster aid. Why is this a surprise to anyone? This was their plan.
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DrGeophysics (my personal opinions only) @drgeophysics.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Don’t expect to hear this being reported. The inconvenience of truth: newrepublic.com/post/197363/...
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Sotomayor Warns No One Is Safe After Birthright Citizenship Ruling
Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor torched the Supreme Court for siding with Trump on birthright citizenship—and putting every civil right under attack.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 27/06/2025
Don’t get it twisted—today’s SCOTUS ruling makes it harder for courts to fully block dangerous policies like Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship. Once again, they’re bending the law to serve him instead of defending the Constitution. It’s shameful.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/06/2025
New in PN: Trump's secret police are terrorizing American streets "The scenes of aggressive, masked agents roughing people up are reminiscent of the world’s most authoritarian regimes, where police and the military act with impunity against citizens."
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Trump's secret police are terrorizing American streets
The altercations are growing more tense — especially in Los Angeles.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Disabled people are being arrested in DC today as they're protesting Medicaid cuts. Source of this photo, ADAPT www.facebook.com/theRealNatio...
Two photographs of a disabled man with Brown skin and short gray and brown hair on the floor out of his wheelchair. He is being arrested by three armed Capitol Police. In the second picture they have him turned over with cuffs behind his back. The man is wearing a yellow ADAPT t-shirt and khaki pants.Two photographs of a disabled man with Brown skin and short gray and brown hair on the floor out of his wheelchair. He is being arrested by three armed Capitol Police. In the second picture they have him turned over with cuffs behind his back. The man is wearing a yellow ADAPT t-shirt and khaki pants.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases. This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
America At War With Iran American warplanes dropped bombs on three nuclear sites in Iran, bringing the U.S. military directly into the war. American military forces in Iraq and Syria are now in harms way. US Intelligence said this was unnecessary. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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Live Updates: U.S. Enters War With Iran, Bombing Key Nuclear Sites
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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
hey @nytimes.com what if instead of this you reported accurately that the president of the united states has violated the united states constitution by entering into war with a foreign power without the approval of congress, just like, what if
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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/06/2025
BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
JENA, La. (AP) — Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from an immigration jail after 104 days in custody.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
So, a Fox personality calls for ICE to go to Dodger Stadium and then it happens a couple of days later. Our leaders now just getting their marching orders from right wing media.
Clay Travis on Fox calling for ICE to go to Dodger Stadium
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
One woman has already been hit with these absurd fees, which compounded for 20 years. The US government wants her alone to pay nearly $2 million. Add this up to the entire undocumented population and they could be demanding hundreds of billions in fees overall. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/u...
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Undocumented mother in South Florida facing $1.8M ICE fine for not leaving country
An undocumented mother in Florida is speaking out after she was allegedly issued a nearly $2 million fine by immigration officials.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The State Department is resuming student visa interviews and imposing strict social media rules, including a requirement that all applicants set their accounts to public to be scrutinized.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
To be clear, Judge Young is ruling that the NIH terminations were neither "reasoned" nor "reasonable" based on the legal standard previously set forth by the Supreme Court for reviewing agency actions (e.g., terminations) under the APA. This is very good for plaintiffs.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
a side note: this is as frontal an assault on the US by Israel as I've ever seen, and there have been some bad ones. This is Israel blowing up the planned negotiations in Oman tomorrow between the Trump envoy and Iran. This is Netanyahu saying the US can't do diplomacy he doesn't sign off on.
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Baptiste Lerak @baptistelerak.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
So, it would appear Israel basically tried to assassinate the entire Iranian establishment. If true, then we're way past "let's hope cooler heads prevail". No country on Earth could possibly react to such an attack with anything but all the violence it is realistically capable of unleashing.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 13/06/2025
The court just confirmed what we all know: The military belongs on the battlefield, not on our city streets. End the unnecessary militarization of Los Angeles now, Donald Trump. Refusing to do so will only confirm your authoritarian tendencies. The country is watching.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 13/06/2025
DEVELOPING: A judge temporarily halted the Trump administration’s military deployment in Los Angeles, writing that the federal government did not have the authority to nationalize California’s National Guard. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., reacts on @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This seems flatly indistinguishable from having them perform ordinary law-enforcement functions, which is (wait for it) illegal. Absent an invocation of the Insurrection Act, military cannot enforce domestic law against civilians.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Gov. Newsom is inarguably cooking on the socials
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
CNN: We have breaking news now from the Pentagon. CNN can now report that roughly 500 Marines are being mobilized in response to the protests in Los Angeles.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 09/06/2025
In a WSJ editorial, RFK Jr removes all ACIP panel members, citing conflicts of interest and the fact that some were lawfully appointed by the Biden Administration. *KENNEDY REMOVING ALL MEMBERS OF CDC PANEL ADVISING ON VACCINES
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Opinion | RFK Jr.: HHS Moves to Restore Public Trust in Vaccines
We’re reconstituting an advisory committee to avoid conflicts of interest.
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lavndrblue.bsky.social @lavndrblue.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Via Nichole Wallace, 700 Marines are being activated to deploy to Los Angeles 🤬 www.cbsnews.com/news/marines...
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Marines activated to deploy to Los Angeles amid ICE protests
Some 700 Marines have been activated to join National Guard troops in Los Angeles, two U.S. officials told CBS News.
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jorek1original.bsky.social @jorek1original.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is happening... Be careful when approached... www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cbsn...
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Apparent immigration agent impersonation in Brooklyn leads to attempted rape, sources say
The NYPD is searching for a man who claimed to be with "Immigration" before attempting to rape a woman in Brooklyn Heights on Tuesday.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This principle protects against authoritarian misuse of military power and preserves civilian control. Deploying troops without state approval, especially to suppress protest, is a clear violation of both legal precedent and democratic norms.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Statistically “America” is its cities. But we’re stuck with an 18th century political architecture that gives votes to cornfields & thus makes it politically viable to treat them as some kind of weird tumor.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
U.S. Correspondent Lauren Tomasi has been caught in the crossfire as the LAPD fired rubber bullets at protesters in Los Angeles. via @9newsaus.bsky.social
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2025
People in ICE detention are being denied health care and adequate nutrition, often given spoiled food or nothing at all. Our government’s cruelty to immigrants is a moral failing — not a policy solution.
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In recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE detention centers
ICE detentions have surged, but deportations have not. In the past month, NPR spoke to dozens of detainees, families and lawyers who spoke of overcrowded centers in Florida lacking food and medicine.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
President Trump's proclamation hands significant authority to someone who lacks a cool head. Here's Secretary Hegseth's first statement: False statements below and then this: "If violence continues, active duty Marines at Camp Pendleton will also be mobilized — they are on high alert."
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
We are at the point that Blue States nationwide have to research if it's legally possible that the state and their citizens can withhold taxes to the federal government and pay them only to their state. Blue states should not fund Trump's war on Blue States and our freedoms.
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🦋🦋Donna Gutman🦋 @donnagutman.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Thanks for this clear graphic of election manipulation @staysinvegas.bsky.social
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
NEW: A requirement that ICE agents ensure courthouse arrests don't clash with state and local laws has been rescinded by the agency. ICE declined to explain what that means for future enforcement. W/ @dell.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-qu...
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ICE Quietly Scales Back Rules for Courthouse Raids
A requirement that ICE agents ensure courthouse arrests don't clash with state and local laws has been rescinded by the agency. ICE declined to explain what that means for future enforcement.
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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
One of the flashbang devices used on the crowd by ICE
One of the spent flashbang canisters used on San Diegoans by ICE
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Stop calling kidnapping and trafficking people to countries they’ve never been to “deporting.” It’s criminal behavior by a country with no conscience. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan
Immigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s return
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers. They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
There is a LOT to unpack here. First, revoking a visa does NOT make someone immediately present without lawful status. That is absolutely false and ICE misrepresented this to the court. As has been repeatedly explained to the Trump admin in recent weeks, F-1 status continues post-visa termination.
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FACTS ESTABLISHING PROBABLE CAUSE
8. Based on my review of records and reports, I have learned the following, in
substance and in part, as to RANJANI SRINIVASAN and SUBJECT PREMISES-1:
RANJANI SRINIVASAN, a citizen of India, entered the United States on an F-1 visa to pursue studies. This visa is a non-immigrant visa that issued by the U.S. Department of State that allows international students to study full-time in the United States.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 07/05/2025
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
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