Reposted by ErikaRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Everything seems so much harder lately. Just hard, hard, hard. (IT'S FINE IT'S FINE) 30130782
Erika @erika-k-wilson.bsky.social · 19/10/2025So goes the South, so goes the nation. The fascism happening now, has been happening in the South since 2010. So please stop talking about the South as some ass backwards place. Like Malcolm X said, “as long as you are south of the Canadian border,you are south.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...nytimes.comOpinion | There Is No Trump Without the South 030
Reposted by ErikaBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22/08/2025Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...ballsandstrikes.orgKetanji Brown Jackson Stops Just Short of Saying the Supreme Court Is Breathtakingly Full of Shit“Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.” 16273372026
Erika @erika-k-wilson.bsky.social · 08/06/2025“To live and die in LA is the place to be.We might fight amongst each other But I promise you this:we'll burn this b*tch down, get us pissed. To live and die in L.A is the place to be.You've got to be there to know! it It wouldn't be L.A.without Mexicans Black love,Brown Pride in the sets again”🙃 000
Erika @erika-k-wilson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025apnews.com/article/scho...apnews.comThe Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fallThe Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ... 010
Reposted by ErikaJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/04/20251. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 companypopular.infoFortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant familyOn March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family. 1193188809138
Reposted by ErikaPam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 28/04/2025People are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means. It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling. 1289269307756
Reposted by Erikasouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2025A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen... 791217859987
Erika @erika-k-wilson.bsky.social · 21/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u... I see you Harvard 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾nytimes.comHarvard University Sues Trump AdministrationHarvard’s lawsuit comes after the administration sought to force the university to comply with a list of demands by cutting billions in federal funding the school receives. 020
Erika @erika-k-wilson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025If you are barred and an active member of the DC bar, please login and vote today! Diane Seltzer for president. Please go vote! Turn out will likely be low, so every vote matters! 031
Reposted by ErikaSecular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him. 297143323613
Reposted by ErikaRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Abrego Garcia & MS-13. What do we know? The allegation seems to stem from double hearsay in a document authored by a later suspended detective. By me, in @lawfare . www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abre... 501287487
Erika @erika-k-wilson.bsky.social · 15/04/202592% of Black and 78% of Black men knew. Black people in America have lived under fascism longer than we have democracy. We know what it looks & feels like. 010
Erika @erika-k-wilson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025This is really sad. Americans have jumped the shark. Its all over but the shouting. 010
Erika @erika-k-wilson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025It is worth remembering that this political interference with universities began in the South around 2018. The oppressive tactics used to terrorize people in the south always metastasized to the entire country.Ignore what is happening in the south at your own peril.It eventually comes for everyone. 000
Reposted by ErikaRep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be. 619314757508
Reposted by ErikaPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting IRS commissioner to resign over deal to share immigrants’ tax data with ICE to help deport them, AP sources say. 241109113029
Reposted by ErikaTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025True. Also true that a lot of Americans burned things the last five years. Our militarized police attacked them and I believe there are credible accounts of assassinations. 81633321
Reposted by ErikaCrystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Why crash the economy? CONTROL. Yarvin: "No, this is not the right way to run the whole economy permanently... But.. it is the right way to reboot the economy. Flattening the financial system this way makes it much easier to control crime, of course—and also, any kind of antigovernment activity." 720361
Reposted by ErikaTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country. 102180132502
Reposted by ErikaEric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 30/03/2025This is why the framing of the current moment as the country suddenly becoming authoritarian drives me fucking crazy. This country has been at least somewhat authoritarian for its entire history. The *how* of it has changed over time, and what’s happening now is ramping it up. But it’s not new. 21007
Reposted by ErikaElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I am waiting for the day when people (including pollsters) learn that when people say they’re voting on the economy, it’s often because it’s a socially acceptable front for other, not socially acceptable reasons. 25870148
Reposted by ErikaMolly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering. 9373174610143
Reposted by Erikajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2025RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive. 974333299402
Erika @erika-k-wilson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025They are priming Americans to accept war & isolationist policies. Super scary 000
Reposted by ErikaDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Judge Amy Berman Jackson grants an injunction preventing Russ Vought from firing CFPB employees. He must reinstate probationary/term employees, provide office space, restore the consumer complaint process, & rescind all contract terminations. The CFPB putsch has failed. 19992264
Erika @erika-k-wilson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025One of the first lessons about litigation that I teach my students is that a court order or judgment is just a piece of paper. It is the Enforcement of that piece of paper. that matters. Let us see what Enforcement looks like. www.newsweek.com/rubio-touts-...newsweek.comRubio touts migrants sent to El Salvador after judge orders planes returnThe secretary of state confirmed the U.S. deported 250 gang members to El Salvador, just a day after a federal judge ordered deportation flights to be reversed. 000
Reposted by ErikaAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/03/2025Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk." 16034088511732
Reposted by Erikajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens 4334850310698
Erika @erika-k-wilson.bsky.social · 02/03/2025www.wunc.org/environment/... The cuts to the “tree equity” program are so upsetting. Here is a good example of the correlation btw tree inequity and redlining.wunc.orgDepression-Era Redlining Leaves Parts Of Durham Less GreenA new study from Duke University shows how maps from a Depression-era loan program that discriminated against predominantly black neighborhoods resulted… 010
Erika @erika-k-wilson.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Cities used redlining maps to determine where they would plant trees.Redlined black areas got “no tree” whereas green-lined white areas got trees.Trees have significant environmental and health benefits. They also substantially improve one’s property value. Tree equity is much needed reparations. 091
Reposted by ErikaHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 28/02/2025Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism Join us for a timely conversation with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social, @jfernandez1202.bsky.social, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, & Robyn Spencer-Antoine Tuesday, March 4 at 6:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... 1543214
Reposted by ErikaJonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 28/02/2025America is over. There is no coming back from this. If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for. The rest of the world has to move on from us. They now know that the American people can't be trusted. They're right. 2735763922
Erika @erika-k-wilson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025This. The stories my 80 year old mother who grew up in Arkansas has… 011
![In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreie3gc6fndj7mtotijddm4eg264zgsqxpn4nbekb3xq5ubdmskvr6u)
!["You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiensu64iobo4ftuqeaighf2p5k745uzdnmhcecugsi4ec74dnqse4)
