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Ellen

@evrlaw.bsky.social
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Born and educated in NJ. Wife, mother, animal lover, enjoy basketball and football, municipal attorney for 35+ years in AZ and OR. No DMs. Thank you.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
My hunch is that, as we saw with Lafayette Park, National Guard troops are not going to be as compliant as this administration thinks. It’s one thing to unleash cops consumed by warrior cop culture on neighborhoods. Quite another to send reservists who are also accountants, barbers, and teachers.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Oh, Canada.
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Ray Woodson @raywoodson5.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Stephen Miller talking about “insurrection” when people are exercising their constitutional rights, as he works for an insurrectionist who is burning down the Constitution. This country is upside down.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
LAPD STATEMENT: “The protests remained peaceful… without incident…”
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Dr. Butch Ware for California Governor 2026 @butchware.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Footage from Minneapolis and LA resisting ICE should remind us; there aren’t enough pigs on the planet to put down a working class uprising.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
What country is this?
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Will🇺🇸📎✌️☮️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
“Strongman” politicians project their supposed strength by attacking immigrants, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. But these groups of people aren't the "threats" we should be worried about. Who is? The oligarchs who earn their keep by exploiting the rest of us.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The statute that President Trump has invoked - 10 U.S.C. § 12406 - has an important proviso: “orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States" Great article @justsecurity.org explains that proviso in this February 2024 article:
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Biden Can, But Shouldn’t, Federalize the Texas National Guard
Invocation of the Insurrection Act in response to Texas' obstruction of CBP agents at the U.S.-Mexico border would be inappropriate.
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God @thegodshow.com · 07/06/2025
Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.
protesters surround federal detention center in Los Angeles
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 08/06/2025
The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.
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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Stephen Miller is fulfilling his high school wet dream of terrorizing all the Brown people in Los Angeles. My daughter's friends who went to SaMo High with him said he used to seethe while the morning announcements were repeated in Spanish. Hell, they did that when I went there. (Mesozoic age.)
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Ellen @evrlaw.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
An over the top Federal political theater response to a matter best addressed by local public safety. Where was Trump's National Guard call out on January 6th? Oh yeah. Forgot those were his people.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/06/2025
Better safe than sorry… 🚨Heavy ICE Presence Expected in Los Angeles on Sunday. A bilingual warning is being shared with the community — including areas to avoid. Stay alert. Protect each other. Know your rights.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
via Wild Bird Scoop
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Jerrad Christian @jerradchristian.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
You guys are keeping us safe from the veterans and the US Marshall you arrested? Keeping us safe from little kids with cancer you deported? The Americans you all kicked out of the house in their underwear when you knocked on the wrong door? Okay, Todd. 🧑‍🍳💋 #ICE #Immigration #ProudBlue #DemVoice1
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The Obama administration deported over 3.16 million people. Biden’s passed 4.44 million. Not once did either need troops in the streets to do it. That’s all you need to know about what’s happening.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
So do we get why I was banned from speaking about Pinochet at the Naval Academy now?
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Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/06/2025
ICE rolls in, LA rises up.🔥 If Stephen Miller was looking for immigrants to roll over and just take it from his ICE goons, he picked the wrong f*cking town. Between yesterday in LA City and Paramount today, the community is fighting back.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/06/2025
Broadway’s “Goodnight and Good Luck,” starring George Clooney, is airing live on CNN tonight. The Post’s theater critic praised the “sensually detailed” play as a timely rallying cry for integrity.
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Review | George Clooney delivers a liberal rallying cry in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’
The actor makes a shrewd Broadway debut as Edward R. Murrow in a handsome adaptation of the 2005 film.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Keep up the fight!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Your safety is the top priority. Peaceful protesters have already been harmed for doing nothing. The story they’re selling isn’t legit. Please film everything, document everything.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/06/2025
She has short bowel syndrome, and only the U.S. offers the treatment that keeps her alive. But her family’s humanitarian parole was suddenly revoked. Now, two months later, DHS has reversed course.
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After outcry, 4-year-old girl can stay in U.S. for lifesaving care
After a medically fragile child’s parole was abruptly revoked, her family was left undocumented and terrified. Two months later, DHS reversed course.
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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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.
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Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 08/06/2025
Lest anyone forget, this is what an insurrection looks like.
Photo from January 6, 2021: Election deniers storm the Capitol and assault police officers in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 US presidential electon.

The current POTUS issued pardon for all convicted for their actions this day, almosr certainly using an autopen to do so.Photo from January 6, 2021: Election deniers storm the Capitol and assault police officers in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 US presidential electon.

The current POTUS issued pardon for all convicted for their actions this day, almosr certainly using an autopen to do so.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
#BookSky
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/06/2025
Breaking News From @theathletic.bsky.social: Coco Gauff beat Aryna Sabalenka 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-4 in the French Open final at Roland Garros on Saturday to claim her second Grand Slam singles title.
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French Open final: Coco Gauff beats Aryna Sabalenka to win second Grand Slam title
Gauff won her first Roland Garros title by playing the conditions and the occasion with more evenness than Sabalenka.
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Zuul @zuulthegatekeeper.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Myra Byrne @myrabyrne.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Today my girlfriend and I sold books we no longer want and used the money we got back to buy children's books for the little free libraries in our neighborhood. It was so fun to pick out books for the kids. We will absolutely be doing this again #booksky #community
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 08/06/2025
The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
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Humanity and Kindness @humanityposts.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Ohh He's crying He was all alone
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/06/2025
Breaking news: In a rematch of their 2023 U.S. Open final, Coco Gauff beat top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka to win the French Open. She is its first American champion since Serena Williams in 2015.
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Coco Gauff tops Aryna Sabalenka to give the French Open an American champion
With the win, Gauff became the first American champion in Paris, woman or man, since Serena Williams in 2015.
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JaValle @handle.invalid · 07/06/2025
Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/06/2025
What happened to states’ rights, Kristi?
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
"Fuck your concrete"
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Congratulations, Coco Gauff! First American to win Roland Garros since Serena Williams.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
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Olivia Gaines, Author @ogaines.com · 07/06/2025
Now everyone will go look up the book and it will make NY Times. #sighs #booksky #writingcommunity
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.
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Ellen @evrlaw.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Trump does not care that this may be illegal. He will defy any court order. He wants this spectacle to justify martial law under the Insurrection Act and having our military kill civilians on American soil. Let that sink in. A bonus is he gets to punish sanctuary jurisdictions.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
There are some absolutely fantastic signs out here today. Arts and craft game is strong.
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