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Blair Hopkins

@hopkinsmsb.bsky.social
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Reigning Queen of Run-On Sentences. Executive Director, SWOP-Behind Bars. New Orleans, LA

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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Mondays, amirite?
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Crazy how you don’t realize how loud your dog licks himself til the power goes out.
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Just want to take this opportunity to remind my fellow New Orleanians that this is a sherif and mayoral election year.
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The feed store had Easter Egger chicks. Momma hen is set to hatch her clutch this week, so I got the chicks and stuck them under her. She immediately grabbed them and was like “MINE THANK YOU LEAVE NOW”
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
My Gen Z sister ends every text with “lol” because her 3 elder millennial sisters raised her right.
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Texas Monthly writer Aaron Parsley and his family were swept away by the flood while asleep in their home. His 20 month-old nephew was lost to the water. This is his incredible recounting of that terrifying night: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
They think it’s treat time every time I open the shed (it is)
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The French Revolution vibes here are just… extraordinary. “The event will instead take place in Arsenale, a historic complex of shipyards surrounded by fortified walls that will be much harder for the protesters to penetrate.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Jeff Bezos alters Venice wedding plans after threat of inflatable crocodiles
Amazon founder reportedly forced to change venue for his wedding celebrations in Italian city
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
From the yard today:
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
My new favorite podcast is just eavesdropping on my boyfriend while he argues with his Call of Duty bros about Iran.
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The night shift, AKA how we know our house isn’t haunted:
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The day shift:
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The aliens have arrived; they demand doughnuts.
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Curly, posing proudly with the socks she hunted and killed all by herself.
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Bedhead 10/10
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/05/2025
UNDERWOOD: Do you believe that the US government has the authority to deport American citizens NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Will I show my chickens these videos later and say “this is from when you were BORN!”? Yes, yes I will.
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Karen Read’s case joining Michael Lacey’s in the “stupidest, most disgusting waste of taxpayer money because prosecutors can’t take their well-deserved ‘L’” category.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/04/2025
"'Eliminating the Medicaid expansion would likely precipitate the biggest one-time increase in the number of people uninsured ever.'" ICYMI @citizencohn.bsky.social on the plan to do just that: www.thebulwark.com/p/health-ins...
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Health Insurance for Millions Is Now on the Chopping Block
Republicans’ very quiet, very serious effort to go after Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
GET 😡 OFF 😡 MY 😡 PEGGY 😡 MARTINS
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
As an elder millennial who has worked extremely hard for a long time to achieve relative financial stability and “middle class” status, I really fucking resent the idiot assholes (for whom I’ve NEVER VOTED) about to drive the economy off a cliff for the 3rd time in my adult life.
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Roosters refusing to let us mind our own business:
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
Photo of Cory Booker in a black suit and tie
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Tim Miller @timmiller.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Everyone involved in the Alien Enemies Act "deportations" (kidnapping) is a depraved monster. This poor man and his family, my god. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
⚜️🥂Cheers🥂⚜️ to everyone who helped ruin Jeff Landry’s day today.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 20/03/2025
Young people have every reason to be enraged.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/03/2025
There's no way to take the idea of MAHA seriously without doing things like being very pro-vaccine or validating Michelle Obama on healthy eating
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MAHA Is a Fraud
America has never been healthier. Going backwards is going to mean more people getting sick and dying.
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Yeah I’m not giving the Democrats another penny until Chuck Schumer is out of leadership. This is fucking pathetic.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/03/2025
Art imitates life. A self-anointed king propped up by a slippery tech overlord.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Board member of Meta hugs it out with Andrew Tate, well known heinous person www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Andrew Tate receives warm welcome from UFC’s Dana White at weekend events
The Tate brothers — who are under criminal investigation in Florida and charged with human trafficking in Romania — attended UFC 313 and Power Slap 12 events.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/03/2025
"Their legislative agenda is to break the legislative branch, to reduce Congress to the status of an advisory body. And if no one stops them from impounding lawfully appropriated funds, that’s what Congress will become." ICYMI @tommalinowski.bsky.social:
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How Democrats Can Win This Shutdown Fight
The party may be out of power, but it is not powerless. Here are a few suggestions for what to do about government funding.
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swop-usa.bsky.social @swop-usa.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
An excellent blog post from @swopbehindbars.bsky.social about their efforts in the #JoeyThePlayer case. So proud that they helped stop a serial predator who targeted sex workers. This is worth a read! www.swopbehindbars.org/post/joeythe...
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#JoeyThePlayer Sentenced to the Max
On Wednesday, June 26th, 2026 #JoeyThePlayer, José Olivio Torres was sentenced to 30 years in prison for 4 counts of #SexTrafficking
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Exactly this
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
FYI a tech banker
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
All this talk about imaginary 120 year olds receiving SSN while we seem to have forgotten about the congressperson and her staff receiving paychecks for like 6 months while she was in a memory care facility.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid
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Goodbye Gray Sky, Helleaux Newm @helleaux-newman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This thing ain’t making through the underpass, I’ll tell you that
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swop-usa.bsky.social @swop-usa.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Today is March 3- International Sex Workers’ Rights Day. In 2001, over 25,000 sex workers gathered in India for a festival despite efforts from prohibitionist groups who tried to prevent it taking place by pressuring the government to revoke their permit. 1/x
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Here’s a cybertruck getting booed at Orpheus to brighten your Lundi Gras:
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/02/2025
Sweeping up Puerto Ricans - automatic U.S. citizens - in immigration raids doesn't exactly back up the idea that it's all about making sure immigrants are following the law. ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-depo...
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Trump’s Deportation Dragnet Widens and Puerto Ricans Are Getting Caught in It
The collateral damage increasingly appears to be lawful U.S. citizens.
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🤔
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I did not move to the South for this shit. If we’re going to be forced to endure SNOW, I want civil rights and consistently functioning basic infrastructure.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
He was karate-chopping the neck of a transgender ghost. Calm down everyone.
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Blair Hopkins @hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
To be clear I would have preferred being happy to being right re: how fucked things are about to be.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“Program Shopping” is emblematic of a larger issue in the anti-trafficking ecosystem. This phenomenon arises when survivors move between programs in search of immediate without accessing the long-term services needed for sustainable recovery. www.swopbehindbars.org/post/program...
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Program Shopping in the Anti-Trafficking Industry: Building Sustainable Solutions
Sasha’s JourneySasha’s voice trembled as she dialed the SWOP Behind Bars hotline. She was calling from a transitional shelter, her fifth program in as many months. At 32 years old, Sasha had survived ...
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burnt undertones @burntundertones.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
On a disconcerting day, this is perhaps the saddest thing. I recently interviewed her about her illness and more and she was and will always be an inspiration to me and so many others: 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...
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Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died
Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.
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swop-usa.bsky.social @swop-usa.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
We tried so hard to warn people that these bans were never about pornography.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/12/2024
It isn’t that Kennedy is merely misinformed—though he is. It’s that he’s an active agent of misinformation. That’s a character problem.
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RFK Jr. Is a One-Man Plague
It’s not just that he’s misinformed. It’s the way his mind works that’s dangerous.
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