Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026Legacy Lounge owned by a Black southern family in Azabu Juban. They’ve owned Soul Food House (6th floor) for 21 years & LL (9th) for 6. They let me in. Into their hearts. We talked about our roots. Them, Mississippi. Me, Arkansas. Our histories. We laughed hard. Cried a little too. They fed me. 1138046
Heron Greenesmith, Esq. @herong.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I've never seen Jennifer's Body and TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT BABY!!! Legitimately excited for this one. 180
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 01/05/2026READ: Genocide does not require mass graves, it also includes efforts to destroy a people's capacity to bring the next generation into being. Israel’s systematic use of torture and sexual violence against Palestinians meets that definition. mondoweiss.net/2026/03/isra...mondoweiss.netIsrael’s widespread use of torture is a core element of its genocide against the Palestinian peopleGenocide does not require mass graves, it also includes efforts to destroy a people’s capacity to bring the next generation into being. Israel’s systematic use of torture and sexual violence against... 13715
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy. 128100113534
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.pussyfullawasps 🗡️ joa (they) @pussyfullawasps.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Action For Transformation Fund is accepting rolling applications for $5K-20K grants for Trans-led organizing, healing, & power-building. BIPOC + Sex Worker-led orgs to the front. You can via online form, video, phone in English or Spanish. Link to apply: transgenderlawcenter.org/action-for-t... 13840
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 26/04/2026there's something disgusting about cis ppl using hrt for sexual kicks while calling me a pervert for using it to reduce suicidal ideation. 2937291061
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026One earnest and sincere question I have for folks who position the restoration of "the social contract" as the way out of this: How can you restore a social contract among people who no longer experience a shared reality? This is not snark. I'm asking. 48883123
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Dan Marshall @danmarstp.marshallwords.com · 28/04/2026Amy's proudly militarizing suburban police. Our slide into fascism is a wholly bipartisan endeavor. 211435
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/04/2026When the president is a heinous abuser, when many of the most popular celebrities are heinous abusers, when the richest people in the world are heinous abusers, when the people developing new technology are heinous abusers, well that’s how you get a culture that incentivizes abuse 111473311
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/04/2026it wasn’t just liam—sahanjournal.comICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data revealsImmigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows. 5351197
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 23/04/2026I guess Waymo shouldn't exist then. 10790155
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 23/04/2026"this character can't be trans because the author wasn't explicitly trying to create a trans woman" neither were my parents, how'd that work out for them? 2461601822
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/04/2026All adults and some children on ICE flights—some 50 flights a day now—are shackled at the wrists and ankles attached to a chain around their waists. I have spoken to migrants and their attorneys who report being shackled for 50, 75, and 82 hours while being deported. Flight data backs this up. 821391168
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Orphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Trans people who don’t support sex workers are fucking cowards and I have no time for their shit. 161
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Interesting that even now, as more people see the problems with censorship, mass surveillance, a police state, and dismantling protections based on race, gender, and sexual orientation, people STILL don't want sex workers at their table. Everything they do to us, they will eventually do to you 18249
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Addicting Ally - I do kink & art thingz @addictingally.bsky.social · 24/04/2026what's truly crazy is that we've been fighting these fights for decades, and the footwork that's been laid for the normies to fight right now was laid BY US... yet we still get pushed aside 02312
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/04/2026While he was detained at Dilley for over four months, 13-year-old Gustavo Santiago said he felt as if he would “never get out.” “I just ask that you don’t forget about us,” he told ProPublica in a video call. (Published Feb.)propublica.orgThe Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention CenterProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of... 15950454
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I really wonder how this is gonna work out. never before have I seen members of a presidential administration lying about current financial conditions like this. especially given they were put in place to lower prices. crazy shit 421633306
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 22/04/2026Featured story from @gaigedavila.bsky.social: Meenu Batra, 53, is Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter. She once helped immigrants in the courts. Now she's languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years. 19957
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Lynxwyze she/they @lynxwyze.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Read this thoroughly - partial information about what the Feds did to our MN kids during and after the terror occupation called Operation Metro Surge. Several children are still unaccounted for. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...sahanjournal.comICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data revealsImmigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows. 182
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 21/04/2026please don't rehab this man. he is an antisemitic white nationalist. He's upset about the war because we're doing it in collaboration with Israel and he thinks it's Jewish people destroying the world. That's it. That's why he's contrite. 610931
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026JRR Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings as a side project while brainstorming a list of cool names for defense contractors 9631134
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 21/04/2026“Kiwi Everlee Wihongi has lived in the United States for more than 25 years and is now in an ICE detention centre in California, after a three week visit back to New Zealand. She lives in Wisconsin, legally, where she has been training to be a welder” www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...rnz.co.nzNew Zealander Everlee Wihongi detained by ICE in California after three-week trip home"It's been over a week, and we still don't have an answer why," Everlee Wihongi's sister says. 27439
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting. End the project already, Dave. You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs. Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going. 231095328
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026The French are entirely correct here. 017842
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 15/04/2026April 2: guards cut all phone access in the housing units without warning. When detainees protested, CRS officers allegedly punched a man, threw another to the ground, kicked him in the head, and pinned him by the neck. A third detainee's wrist was broken. The entire cage was pepper-sprayed.miamiherald.comAlligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs sayAttorneys say the Trump and DeSantis administrations are disregarding a court order requiring access to phones and attorneys for detainees. 311114547
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19/04/2026EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”. 284103632497
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 19/04/2026When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.” 1333381091
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Not coincidentally, the robots don't talk back. 0345
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 19/04/2026“Öztürk's return to Turkey ends any further [immigration] proceedings, the ACLU said. The agreement [with the Trump administration] also acknowledges that Öztürk was in lawful status the whole time she was in the United States.”wbur.orgRümeysa Öztürk returns to Turkey after immigration detention and earning doctorateÖztürk's case gained national attention after video surfaced of masked agents arresting her on a Somerville street in March 2025. She was detained for six weeks in multiple states before being release... 0154
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 19/04/2026Basically we're at a point where if you love and accept your trans child and don't abuse them the government will criminalize both you and your child. 318149
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.The Onion @theonion.com · 19/04/2026State Department Issues Travel Warning For Women Vacationing With Husbands theonion.comState Department Issues Travel Warning For Women Vacationing With HusbandsWASHINGTON—In an effort to call attention to a potentially life-threatening hazard, the State Department issued a travel warning Thursday for all women considering taking a vacation with their husband... 221325139
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.NBC News @nbcnews.com · 19/04/2026BREAKING: Eight children were killed in an "extensive" mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, police say. The suspected shooter is also dead.nbcnews.to8 children killed in Louisiana mass shootingThe alleged gunman was killed after a police chase, according to police. 100590351
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 19/04/2026preparing to give another Trans People & "Biological Sex" talk, so I though I'd re-up this – it's an in depth primer on why anti-trans groups have become obsessed with gametes & why the actual science does not support their claims (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...juliaserano.medium.comWhy Are “Gender Critical” Activists So Fond of Gametes?plus my new video “Trans People and Biological Sex: What the Science Says” 8313113
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 18/04/2026I will never see grown white people as infants who are powerless but to be racist. I will always seeing them as consistently choosing it out of their free will. I guess I afford them humanity, unlike they do to me. 1519
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Thinking about the 62 million views, and then thinking about how marital rape was only made illegal in all 50 US states in the summer of 1993. I can remember 1993. I can remember what was on the radio at the time. I had just been in my first movie. It was not so long ago. 422080388
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/04/2026There's long been a type of savvy, conservative-coded con man who's especially adept at siphoning the money of AARP-eligible suburban and rural white Christians into their own, city slicker pockets. But the link between the grift and the right wing politics has rarely been as tight as it is today. 921484330
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.vicky "with a gun" cardew @victoriacardew.bsky.social · 18/04/2026every generation reinvents human trafficking and gives it a cutesy little euphemism and the cold truth of the matter is that some men just need to be castrated as a warning to the others 314548
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history 3751981238
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Rest in Peace. www.13newsnow.com/article/news...13newsnow.comVirginia governor, advocates remember Dr. Cerina FairfaxDr. Cerina Fairfax is remembered as a mentor and community leader as officials call attention to the broader impact of domestic gun violence toward Black women. 16880127
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/04/2026NEW: Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas after doctors delayed treatment. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to the deaths, but the doctors were given minimal punishment. By Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presserpropublica.orgTexas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant WomenThe two women died during miscarriages. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to their deaths. 39260433347
Heron Greenesmith, Esq. @herong.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Really disgusted and disappointed with @mayorwu.boston.gov seeing the budget cuts to social services, the increased budget to law enforcement, and now this latest faux-scandal with Out Newcomers. Please read. Such cowardice from the mayor.boston.comLGBTQ+ immigrant organization returns grant money to Boston after media firestorm, death threatsThe Wu administration said that the organization's program was not in line with the intended use of the funds. 140
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Caitlyn Jenner's a piece of shit and I struggle to care that she is reaping what she sowed but she is right about this, and I do care that other US trans people who aren't the absolute worst are also being effected. And begrudgingly I admit that even assholes deserve dignity they don't afford others 67011
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 18/04/2026The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026 22382622964
Reposted by Heron Greenesmith, Esq.Written by Uju ✍🏽 @writtenbyuju.bsky.social · 17/04/2026What’s unfolding across the news is heartbreaking. When we name them, we remember them 🤍 Dr. Cerina Fairfax, Pastor Tammy McCollum, Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer, Ashly Robinson (Ashlee Jenae), Qualeshia “Saditty” Barnes, Davonta Curtis, Barbara Deer, Ashanti Allen. 4145107