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Lisa White

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Former newspaper reporter, frequent media critic. Vegan. Fond of cats.

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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 14h
Our new podcast MAKE the CASE launches today! Go behind the scenes of legal battles around the most consequential issues of our day, from surveillance & immigration to voting rights & police accountability. Listen at www.aclunorcal.org/make-the-case/ and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court ruled that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco violated state law when he seized roughly 650,000 ballots from last year’s special redistricting election after pursuing debunked claims of a massive ballot discrepancy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to return seized ballots, affirms state’s power over local law enforcement
The twin rulings stand to make it significantly harder for local law enforcement to create election chaos and use unsubstantiated fraud claims to seize ballots outside California’s established electio...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/09/2026
Censoring medical research goes against the very mission of public health agencies and negatively impacts everyone’s health. See you in court.
Brown graphic with yellow text reading "The Trump administration is cutting research on dementia because it doesn't like 'DEI language'. We're suing." A screenshot of an email is on the graphic, sent from NIH to a researcher explaining that she must remove "DEI activity" from her grant application.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Josh Richman @joshrichman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Next up: ❎ Axon ❎ Celebrite ❎ Palantir LFG!
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, is allowing political ideology to override scientific expertise in determining which projects receive federal funding. This is censorship and we sued to stop it.
A quote from ACLU NorCal attorney Grayce Zelphin that reads, “The Trump administration is unlawfully penalizing scientists because their research does not support the government’s preferred viewpoint on issues such as race and gender. The NIH’s new policies, which are essentially a political litmus test, violate the First Amendment, undermine science and education, and have cost universities tens of millions of dollars in cancelled grants.”
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: We're suing Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the National Institutes of Health Director for their ideologically-driven termination and censorship of biomedical research grants. Targeting views the government disagrees with for not aligning with a political agenda is unconstitutional.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums
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moppy is semi ia 🍉 #BOYCOTT143ENT @kep1dalso.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Kanye West, who repeatedly praised Hitler and the Nazis, performed at SoFi Stadium (LA) and Raymond James Stadium (Tampa) in 2026, and is playing at AT&T Stadium (Dallas) in November. Praising Nazism is fine for NFL owners, but "Free Palestine" isn’t?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026
No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.
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Screenshot showing two sequential posts on X by journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) discussing Texas politics:
 * Top post: Text reads, "Paxton on Talarico: 'He wants to transition your kids!'" accompanied by an embedded video frame of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking at a podium in a dark suit and red tie.
 * Bottom post: Text reads, "Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors," above a video thumbnail from Fox News Channel featuring a woman anchor in a red blazer, with lower-third banners reading "EXCLUSIVE," "SHIFTING THE REINS?", and "TALARICO STANCE DIFFERS FROM EARLIER COMMENTS."
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Violent patriarchy. The leveraging of Lindsay Clancy’s story to demonize all women is violent patriarchy. Society’s silence on the scores of women who die at the hands of men while hyper focusing on the actions of this one woman is violent patriarchy. We have to call that out. 5/5
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Breaking! In a major win, today we settled our lawsuit with Sonoma County over its runaway drone surveillance program that trampled people's rights to privacy. No one should be afraid to open their blinds or go into their backyard because a government drone might be spying on their home.
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ACLU Settles Lawsuit with Sonoma County, Curbing Invasive Runaway Drone Surveillance Program that Trampled People’s Privacy - ACLU of Northern California
ACLU Settlement Victory for Privacy Protections
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Customs and Border Protection is detaining green card holders with past arrests for more than 72hrs at the San Francisco airport, a violation of agency guidelines. No beds or clean clothes. Limited access to medications, family, and attorneys. Many were transferred to ICE detention centers.
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Under Trump, SFO is now a de facto immigration detention center
More than two dozen immigrants have been held at San Francisco’s airport this year for longer than three days, in violation of Customs and Border Protection’s guidelines.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Haitian Student, Despondent Over Ankle Monitor, Dies in Apparent Suicide
The 20-year-old was fitted with a tracking device under a Trump administrative initiative targeting Haitians in Springfield, Ohio.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
The value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace & credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In a victory for free speech, a federal court ruled that the Trump Administration can’t deport noncitizens for criticizing Israel and the war in Gaza. "Freedom of speech is illusory if we are only ‘free’ to express complementary views about the government and its leaders,” the judge wrote.
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Trump Cannot Deport Students for Criticizing Israel, Judge Rules | KQED
The ruling was a victory for the student newspaper at Stanford University, which maintained that the threat of deportation had led some noncitizens to no longer work there or express their views.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We're deep into Mad King territory here and yet there will still be people on the Sunday shows today pretending that the president isn't a mentally deranged despot
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Between October 2025 and July 2026, the U.S. accepted 10,258 refugees. All but three (3!) were white South Africans. Regardless of your opinion of South Africa's laws and government, I don't know how you could call this anything other than an explicitly racist policy.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Trump knows he can’t win an election the legal way, so he’s trying to sabotage it by demanding voter lists and empowering his controlled Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot and who doesn’t. They’ll steal this election if we let them. We won’t let them.
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Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now (Gift Article)
The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump’s order that creates “state citizenship lists” and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
KBJ has them cold:
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is 100% true. They'll gleefully destroy any institutional space that makes room for Black people, and then turn around and say it's for "intellectual diversity" or similar bullshit. And meanwhile, most of these "anti-wokers" are mediocre--at best!--occupants of those same spaces
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
License plate readers were already a privacy nightmare. Then came SignalTrace, which adds new sensors to existing ALPR cameras. From mobile phones to fitness trackers, from Bluetooth headphones to smartwatches, it picks up signals from any personal device you carry that emits one.
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Communities across the country are canceling their Flock contracts under public pressure. We built a toolkit to help yours be next! Because here’s the thing: these aren’t normal traffic cameras. They log every passing car into a national database law enforcement—including ICE—can search.
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
In Vallejo, 41% of drivers police stopped were Black. Black people are just 16% of the city’s population. Statewide data shows police consistently stop and search Black and Latino drivers at higher rates than other racial groups. This is racial profiling. And it doesn't make the roads safer.
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Vallejo police racial profiling data shows Black drivers are pulled over most often
Black motorists made up 41% of all traffic stops, despite only being 16% of the city’s population.
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Jeffrey Austin @jaustinedu.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
What makes talking about crime and surveillance difficult is that the biggest surveillance zealots are those who either believe a) they don't commit crimes or b) their crimes are fundamentally different from the crimes other people commit and shouldn't be prosecuted.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Last year, TSA began sharing passenger manifests with ICE, and ICE began arresting people at airports. After some initial arrests led to backlash, ICE pulled back a bit. But with the pressure on from the White House right now, we're seeing a lot more arrests at airports recently.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 19/07/2026
lmao he looks like he was photoshopped in
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...
The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

 “You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The ACLU has mounted a full-court press to protect the vote amid an onslaught of voter suppression tactics in California and across the U.S. Today we filed an amicus to invalidate Shasta County’s illegal Measure B which would block most residents from casting mail ballots like they could before.
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ACLU of Northern California Files Amicus Brief Supporting State's Challenge to Shasta County's Illegal Measure B That Would Make it Harder for Eligible Voters to Cast Ballots - ACLU of Northern Califo...
Measure B Takes Away Mail Voting for Nearly All Shasta County Residents
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We’re calling on Alameda County supes to stop stalling and fast-track approval of a civilian sheriff’s oversight board with meaningful investigative and subpoena powers. Elected sheriffs hold enormous power over jails and law enforcement. They must be held accountable to the public they serve.
sfchronicle.com
Oversight of sheriff’s offices affirmed by California Supreme Court
County governments in California can establish agencies to oversee their sheriff’s offices and obtain their records under a ruling affirmed Wednesday by the state Supreme Court.
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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Trump admin just changed the definition of "harm" to animals under the Endangered Species Act, in what environmentalists called the biggest erosion of protections for wildlife in 50 years. @nytimes.com gift link to the story w/ @catrineinhorn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
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Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Proposition 39 would make it harder for eligible California voters to cast ballots and would expose millions of people who vote by mail to the risk of identity theft. It claims to solve a problem that doesn’t even exist. That’s why in November, we urge Californians to Vote No on Prop 39.
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California Sen. Alex Padilla champions efforts to defeat proposed voter ID laws
The lawmaker joins California politicians and advocates who’ve weighed in on prop 39, which would require IDs at the ballot box.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY
Guy standing up meme
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I think about gay men during the AIDS crisis, in the face of what often seemed like utter hopelessness, using everything in the arsenal--rage, resolve, defiance, humor, sexual energy, imagination, and art--to prevent despair from ruling the day. Even Larry Kramer didn't simply say, "We're doomed."
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
11:42 AM • 6/25/26 • 670K ViewsJill Tucker
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 92K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
X.com
You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This ruling in our lawsuit Pablo Sequen, et al. v. Albarran, et al. protects every person, in every jurisdiction, who seeks justice in our nation's immigration courts.
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Bay Area immigrants fought ICE courthouse arrests. Their win covers every court in America
A federal judge dealt a far-reaching blow to a Trump administration policy of arresting immigrants at immigration court, ruling that it has to stop in every kind of courthouse in the U.S.
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Exclusive: Immigration attorney detained and searched at SFO, told by DHS he was on ‘watchlist’ — w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...
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Exclusive: Immigration attorney detained and searched at SFO, told by DHS he was on ‘watchlist’
An advocate said the Oakland man may be the first immigration attorney to be detained for a non-random secondary screening at an airport since Trump took office.
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Today the city of Vallejo released a report confirming that a number of police officers were bending their badges whenever they shot at civilians. City officials fought hard to keep it hidden. @openvallejo.org Residents should demand that city and VPD officials answer for this scandal.
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Vallejo has released its long-secret police badge-bending report. Read it here.
Ordered disclosed after a years-long legal fight, the report is the city’s own investigation into a ritual in which Vallejo police bent their badges to mark the civilians they killed.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The thing to keep in mind that MAGA, Trumpians, GOP, democrats, liberals, and white leftists are generally more or less on board with “teach these uppity Negroes a lesson” social policy. Very important that you keep that in mind.
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Today we celebrate Juneteenth — the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free more than 2 years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Did you know California has a connection to Juneteenth that most people have never heard about? Learn more:
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Home - Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California | ACLU NorCal
Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
New: Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people. Seemingly every week there's a new case, the details usually similar. Cops use unfettered access to Flock to surveil an ex. They most often search their plates hundreds of times over course of months www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...
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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
It is remarkable how many establishment Dems simply do not understand they are in the middle of an existential war against MAGA politics, and that there’s no co-existence possible here.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/05/2026
This, the US Supreme Court has explained to us, is what it looks like to finally live in a land free of racial discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u... South Carolina is 26% black. Louisiana is 33%. Mississippi is 37%.
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Berkeley is up tomorrow! #GetTheFlockOut Details at docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Flyer: Last chance, tell the Berkeley city council to drop flock. Sanctuary over Surveillance! Thursday, May 7. rally and press conference, 4pm, meeting 5pm, 1231 Addison Street, Berkeley, learn more at tinyurl.com/dropflockberkeley
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
As newsrooms shut down, lay people off, or turn to AI, getting a journalism career in a human newsroom will be as difficult as breaking into the music industry as an artist, or the tv and movie industry as an actor. One will wait tables hoping to get a chance to do journalism with humans.
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
In a huge win for equal justice, the California Supreme Court has ruled that people charged with crimes must be given a bail they can afford – unless they’re charged with serious felonies and would pose a threat to public safety if released. No more locking people up just because they’re poor.
sfchronicle.com
Bail must be ‘reasonably attainable’ for nonviolent offenders, California Supreme Court rules
People charged with crimes must be granted bail that they can afford unless they are accused of capital offenses, or face serious charges and pose a threat of violence, the state Supreme Court...
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