Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Our 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. 045
Reposted by Lisa WhiteMarc 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/...democracydocket.comCalifornia Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to return seized ballots, affirms state’s power over local law enforcementThe 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... 802134594231
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU @aclu.org · 22/09/2026Censoring medical research goes against the very mission of public health agencies and negatively impacts everyone’s health. See you in court. 13526170
Reposted by Lisa WhiteRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everything 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. 47271643220
Reposted by Lisa WhiteJosh Richman @joshrichman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Next up: ❎ Axon ❎ Celebrite ❎ Palantir LFG! 14919
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The 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. 13919
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU @aclu.org · 16/09/2026BREAKING: 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. 151408367
Reposted by Lisa Whiteℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Worth 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 031931183
Reposted by Lisa Whitemoppy is semi ia 🍉 #BOYCOTT143ENT @kep1dalso.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Kanye 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? 855070
Reposted by Lisa WhiteAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026No 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. 8652901329
Reposted by Lisa WhiteRuth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Violent 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 4598119
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Breaking! 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.live-awp-norcal.pantheonsite.ioACLU Settles Lawsuit with Sonoma County, Curbing Invasive Runaway Drone Surveillance Program that Trampled People’s Privacy - ACLU of Northern CaliforniaACLU Settlement Victory for Privacy Protections 0115
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Customs 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.sfchronicle.comUnder Trump, SFO is now a de facto immigration detention centerMore 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. 248
Reposted by Lisa WhiteRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...nytimes.comHaitian Student, Despondent Over Ankle Monitor, Dies in Apparent SuicideThe 20-year-old was fitted with a tracking device under a Trump administrative initiative targeting Haitians in Springfield, Ohio. 1111328524
Reposted by Lisa WhiteLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026The 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. 7779111849
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026In 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.kqed.orgTrump Cannot Deport Students for Criticizing Israel, Judge Rules | KQEDThe 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. 185
Reposted by Lisa WhiteKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026We'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 973800872
Reposted by Lisa WhitePatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Between 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. 301943568
Lisa White @fwbeans.bsky.social · 26/08/2026[Int. Target boardroom] CEO: After a rough year, customers are returning and the stock price has rebounded. What do we have teed up for Halloween? Non-DEI Executive #472: This Minstrel Clown costume should be a huge seller, especially in our Southern locations! CEO (nodding sagely): Excellent. 081
Reposted by Lisa WhiteSenator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Trump 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.nytimes.comSupreme 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. 24515
Lisa White @fwbeans.bsky.social · 20/08/2026She could have just stayed home and mourned her brother. Instead, she was handed a golden opportunity to display her bigotry and her ignorance and she grabbed the wheel with both hands. 1907
Reposted by Lisa WhiteKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This 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 10806188
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026License 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. 045
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Communities 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. 1175
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026In 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.vallejosun.comVallejo police racial profiling data shows Black drivers are pulled over most oftenBlack motorists made up 41% of all traffic stops, despite only being 16% of the city’s population. 1107
Reposted by Lisa WhiteJeffrey Austin @jaustinedu.bsky.social · 26/07/2026What 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. 1164
Reposted by Lisa WhiteAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Last 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. 161152662
Reposted by Lisa White Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 19/07/2026lmao he looks like he was photoshopped in 411133131
Reposted by Lisa WhiteBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i... 535226636862
Reposted by Lisa WhiteMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026This 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. 10716503220330
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The 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.live-awp-norcal.pantheonsite.ioACLU 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 01814
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026We’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.comOversight of sheriff’s offices affirmed by California Supreme CourtCounty 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. 087
Reposted by Lisa WhiteMaxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The 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...nytimes.comTrump 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. 19181134
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Proposition 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.sacbee.comCalifornia Sen. Alex Padilla champions efforts to defeat proposed voter ID lawsThe lawmaker joins California politicians and advocates who’ve weighed in on prop 39, which would require IDs at the ballot box. 0106
Reposted by Lisa WhitePatrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY 7699603431
Reposted by Lisa WhiteMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I 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. 5544431113
Reposted by Lisa WhiteMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Donald 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. 6050841361
Reposted by Lisa WhiteMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I 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." 111299238
Reposted by Lisa WhiteLeah 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: 2338661526
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This 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.sfchronicle.comBay Area immigrants fought ICE courthouse arrests. Their win covers every court in AmericaA 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. 08242
Reposted by Lisa WhiteSt. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Exclusive: Immigration attorney detained and searched at SFO, told by DHS he was on ‘watchlist’ — w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...sfchronicle.comExclusive: 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. 068
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Today 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.openvallejo.orgVallejo 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. 31311
Reposted by Lisa WhiteTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The 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. 6538152
Reposted by Lisa WhiteACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Today 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:goldchains.aclunorcal.orgHome - Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California | ACLU NorCalGold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California 0135
Reposted by Lisa WhiteJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/06/2026New: 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...404media.coCops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk PeopleThere have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people. 10462217