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Emily Arnold-Fernández

@emilyaf47.bsky.social
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Using this mostly for poetry ✒️🌅 For human rights, migration, digital worlds follow me on LinkedIn.com/emily-arnold-fernandez.

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Emily Arnold-Fernández @emilyaf47.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Key words: "mass" surveillance -- bet they argue targeted surveillance (eg against all Trump critics) isn't "mass". And "human responsibility" for autonomous weapons, which probably means "here's who an injured person could take to court if killed by autonomous weapons". Assuming courts still work
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
New from @splawinski.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern: To stymie ICE, look at the sources of its power. That includes money but also co-operative 287(g) agreements with state and local govts. Blocking and reversing those agreements weakens ICE capacity. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-federali...
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A Federalism Bottleneck?
The Subnational Levers Constraining ICE
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
for better or worse, this will probably be the most successful and compelling argument by communities against ICE concentration camps being built: (from this piece: archive.is/eGsQf)
In addition to their concerns about the conditions in which ICE detainees would be held, local leaders warned that an ICE warehouse in their town of about 30,000 residents could place a heavy burden on emergency services and tarnish the community’s public image while reducing property tax revenues.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Delia Ramirez is a real one www.thehandbasket.co/p/rep-delia-...
KABAS: So many comparisons have made between the current state of US immigration terror and Nazi Germany in the 1930s, and I've seen some say that kind of seeks to absolve this country of its own history of racial terror and genocide. In the hearings this week with ICE and CBP and USCIS, you said you have “no respect for inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol.” How did it feel to publicly and explicitly draw that connection? 
REP. RAMIREZ: I knew that I was going to make them very uncomfortable. I'm not talking about just the DHS directors there—I meant my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. And I say this often, ‘Courage is not the absence of fear. It’s the willingness to act despite the fear.’ I'm a little scared [in that moment], because if I'm being blunt with you, every time I speak there's a death threat. And yet I thought it was so important, as a daughter of immigrants, as a proud representative of Illinois-3, as someone who has been calling out what they do, to be able to look evil in the eye and call them what they are.
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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
MAGA propagandists: "We represent the silent majority" The silent majority:
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12/12/2025
The bill needed 60 votes to pass, but only four Republicans broke with their party and voted to extend the subsidies that millions rely on: Josh Hawley, Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Susan Collins, resulting in a total of just 51 votes in favor. trib.al/09Q1dxK
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List of Every Republican Who Voted to Make Obamacare More Expensive
Here is the full list of Republicans who don’t care that health insurance costs are about to skyrocket for millions of Americans.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 10/12/2025
Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans. Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills. Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
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Emily Arnold-Fernández @emilyaf47.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Mostly I don't share unpublished #poems here...but I'm in New York as the #UNGA (#UN General Assembly) meeting happens and my country's president makes unhinged critiques of cooperation between countries and individual people's rights. The words just emerged. #poetry #politics #humanrights
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eche poetry @echepoetry.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
From ‘Black and white and red all over’ by Emily Arnold-Fernández @emilyaf47.bsky.social Read the full poem at www.echepoetry.co.uk/one
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Forest Publications @forestpublications.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Emily Arnold-Fernandez @emilyaf47.bsky.social (she/they) is a poet from California who resides in Scotland. Inspiration for 'After the Rescue' comes from a childhood love of the song 'Puff the Magic Dragon' to fairytales to the performances of femininity demanded of women. Read in #ShadowsOnTheStage
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eche poetry @echepoetry.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Thanks to the amazing poets … @mrirwin.bsky.social @garretandbasement.bsky.social @writeangled.bsky.social @lenaozge.bsky.social @wordsmithwitch.bsky.social @emilyaf47.bsky.social @simonmaddrell.bsky.social @navkiranmann.bsky.social @nblascsok.bsky.social @bornonadarkmoon.bsky.social
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freedom bell @freedombell.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
One of the biggest problems right now is people don't understand the scope of the Administration's actions. We make handouts about specific topics to help people understand what's happening. Please hand them out, share them online, and use our QR codes on stickers and signs. freedombell.us
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freedom bell @freedombell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Lives and livelihoods depend on the Federal Government's weather forecasting agencies. Why is the Trump Administration shutting down critical systems? freedombell.us/weather
A handout that begins "America's Weather Service Is Being Shut Down.  What Happens When the Next Deadly Storm Hits?"
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
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Ana Visneski @oceanbound.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I have gotten confirmation from sources inside the Coast Guard that this is in fact true and happened in Key West. ICE went into military housing and took the spouse of a USCG member who is currently out to sea.
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Get Alt Text @alt-text.bsky.social · 03/05/2023
Please spread the word about this bot to folks who use screen readers and/or rely on alt text for understanding images of text. Please do not use the bot when it isn't needed. It isn't expensive to maintain the service, but it does cost money. You can report issues to @holden.bsky.social. Thank you!
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Congressman Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL 01) @jonathanjackson.house.gov · 24/03/2025
Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary
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cya 西田 🩵 working on comm/zine @cyanishida.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Pinterest updated their terms of use and they're going to use all of the content you saved to train their AI. Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI Please do it 🫠
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Ana Visneski @oceanbound.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Hearing that the Coast Guard is being told to deprioritize and de-emphasize the Search and Rescue mission. That’s right, you know, one of the main missions of the service since the very beginning? There are more than 3,500 lives saved per year by the CG.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
SCOOP: Elon's favorite anon data expert, who's been appearing on NewsNation in sunglasses, isn't a govt. spending expert but rather a senior employee at an AI lending firm that's battled the CFPB for years. Me at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Who Is the Anonymous Data Expert Telling Elon Which Cuts to Make?
Conservatives cite her account to spread misinformation about federal agencies. DataRepublican has worked at a tech firm that’s battled the CFPB.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
On the HHS Leadership call today: 1 employee from CMS (Center for Medicare/Medicaid Service) and 2 employees from SSA (Social Security Administration) have died by suicide after their firing.
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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We'll be opening submissions for the 2025 Literary Awards Program, judged by the ever wonderful @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social, on March 1st. We can't wait to read those manuscripts! Learn more about our Literary Awards Program right here: buff.ly/4gUhp7J
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 26/02/2025
As Musk rails against government fraud and waste (and gets it wrong), he would do well to remember how much he has benefited from taxpayer funds.
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New Report Exposes How Elon Musk Made U.S. Government His Cash Cow
Elon Musk is a greedy welfare billionaire.
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🚨 SCOOP 🚨 The acting Social Security commissioner has left the agency after a clash over providing DOGE access to sensitive data It follows our reporting that DOGE is seeking access to personal financial data at the IRS for every taxpayer, business and nonprofit.
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Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data
Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information.
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Emily Arnold-Fernández @emilyaf47.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Lots of protests on No Kings Day (Presidents' Day). Google's top links to news about it are Rolling Stone and Al-Jazeera. NYT coverage doesn't appear until p 3. Let's make visible the extent of these protests. We don't want a King Trump or an Emperor Musk! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...
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Thousands Gather on Presidents’ Day to Call Trump a Tyrant
Protesters opposing broad swaths of President Trump’s agenda took the streets across the country, including outside the U.S. Capitol.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Fascinating how many liberals want to accept the unproved premise that we are less happy and justify it. I reject even the premise. Self-reporting is not a reliable measure. Considering how conservatives *act* like bitter, angry people, I'd think they aren't as happy as they say.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/02/2025
Knowledge is power…
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
you look sad here's a picture of a boxer crab a very grumpy crustacean who with minimal provocation will grab two anemones and use them like fists to fight photo by Bruce Shafer
A skinny-legged pink crab with huge orange eyes clutches two white sea anemones. They are the perfect size to be her fists
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/02/2025
just speaking from personal experience now, i think it is really important to understand that simply being black is read by a non-trivial number of people as anti-white extremism
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Everyone knew RFK was lying when he said he wasn't going to come after vaccines, but even I'm surprised at how swiftly he's moving.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/02/2025
The Trump administration laid off half of its Epidemic Intelligence Service, otherwise known as the “Disease Detectives.” The lay off affected 1,260 staff, reported NBC News’s Lewis Kamb.
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RFK Jr. Just Kneecapped the CDC on His First Day
The purging of federal workers continues.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/02/2025
Trump—or Vance—can make one phone call and set any investigation they wish in motion, or get one quashed. In other words, they are the law.
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Trump’s A.G. Just Did Something So Corrupt She Should Be Fired Already
Note to right-wing “media” and all you fantasists who believe them: This is what judicial sleaze actually looks like.
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Just Some Tree @basicbirch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
JFC. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
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Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN
Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.
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Emily Arnold-Fernández @emilyaf47.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Sounds good to me...
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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“The federal agency's new requirements under the Trump administration… are so egregious that Tupelo Press Publisher and Artistic Director Jeffrey Levine feels it's important to take a public stance.” www.berkshireeagle.com/arts_and_cul...
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New NEA grant rules spark backlash, confusion for some in the Berkshires arts community
New funding rules from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Trump administration prohibit grants from supporting DEI or gender identity, prompting backlash from Berkshires arts organizations....
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 09/11/2024
Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies: “What a weird thing to say” “Do you hear yourself right now?” “You shouldn’t say shit like that to people” “I won’t let you talk to them that way” “That’s a disgusting opinion to have” “Shut the fuck up, dude”
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
it really doesn't get any more disgusting than this. sick
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14/02/2025
The State Department was set to buy $400 million worth of armored Teslas from Elon Musk. But after a report from Drop Site News exposed the massive conflict of interest, the department quietly deleted the word “Tesla” and changed the $400 million line item to a generic “armored electric vehicles.”
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Tesla Name Quietly Removed From Federal Contract After Uproar
The State Department has suddenly deleted any mention of “Tesla” after facing massive backlash over its recent contract.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A huge decision from Judge Amir Ali, meticulously reasoned and utterly scathing, finding that Trump’s foreign aid freeze is almost certainly an illegal and arbitrary abuse of power. He orders the immediate restoration of all international assistance. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Consistent with the reasoning above, it is hereby ORDERED that Defendants Marco
Rubio, Peter Marocco, Russell Vought, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for
International Development, and the Office of Management and Budget (the "Restrained
Defendants") and their agents are temporarily enjoined from enforcing or giving effect to Sections
1, 5, 7, 8, and 9 of Dep't of State, Memorandum, 25 STATE 6828 (Jan. 24, 2025) and any other
directives that implement Sections 3(a) and 3(c) of Executive Order Number 14169, "Reevaluating
and Realigning United States Foreign Aid" (Jan. 20, 2025), including by:
• suspending, pausing, or otherwise preventing the obligation or disbursement appropriated foreign-assistance funds in connection with any contracts, grants, cooperative
agreements, loans, or other federal foreign assistance award that was in existence as of
January 19, 2025; or
• issuing, implementing, enforcing, or otherwise giving effect to terminations, suspensions, or stop-work orders in connection with any contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, loans, or other federal foreign assistance award that was in existence as of January 19, 2025.It is further hereby ORDERED that nothing in this order shall prohibit the Restrained
Defendants from enforcing the terms of contracts or grants.
It is further hereby ORDERED that the Restrained Defendants shall take all steps necessary to effectuate this order and shall provide written notice of this order to all recipients of
existing contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements for foreign assistance.
It is further hereby ORDERED that the Restrained Defendants shall file a status report by
February 18, 2025, apprising the Court of the status of their compliance with this order, including by providing a copy of the written notice described above.
The parties shall meet and confer and file a joint status report by February 14, 2025, at 5:00
p.m. proposing an expedited preliminary injunction briefing schedule.
AMIR H. ALI
United States District Judge
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/02/2025
Protest at Stonewall tomorrow. You can’t spell Stonewall without the T.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/02/2025
"We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now," said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley. "There have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency. We never have seen anything like this."
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Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say
Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the boundaries of executive power.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So glad @gilduran.com explained this in a short video. Everyone needs to watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC62...
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🔥 Elon Musk & Silicon Valley’s Plan to Dismantle Democracy | The Shocking Truth
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich
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Emily Arnold-Fernández @emilyaf47.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It's time for all of us to think seriously about what we will do in the key foreseeable moments when our ethics will be tested. It may start small, easing us into compliance. Let's make our plans now so we don't freeze or bend.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ILLEGALLY FIRED FEMA OFFICIALS AFTER ELON MUSK TOLD LIES ABOUT THEM. jfc it's not that hard!
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Monica Aksamit @monicaaksamit.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The Nazis burned it to the ground. LGBTQ people were sent to concentration camps and forced to wear triangle badges. Many were killed in the Holocaust. The Nazis also saw manhood as under threat by independent women who didn't rely on men. In 1934, Hitler proclaimed, “A women’s world is her /10
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