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Janelle Fine

@janellefine.bsky.social
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San Diego area mom, engineer, researcher, knitter, robotics mentor, general nerd. #GeeksResist 🌻🏳️‍🌈🖖 No DMs unless I actually know you, please. I'll just block you

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.
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barbisblue @barbisblue.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Why is "lunch debt" a thing that exists?

It's food. They're kids. Just give it to them.
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💙Beebs @blue-rosary52.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This⬇️
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/06/2026
terribly disappointed to learn that the five gallon costco wine bucket is fake
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The biggest and most disruptive change proposed by the OMB would be to require senior political appointees to review every grant before it is awarded, blocking awards that “promote anti-American values," challenge binary views of sex, or otherwise don't align with the administration's values. 4/n
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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A new proposed rule on federal grantmaking — across agencies, this is much broader than research awards — just dropped. Screenshot from page 48 public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf
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Janelle Fine @janellefine.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
So...he wants to make them the paid protesters they've been claiming that we were all along? Every accusation is a confession. Every. Single. One.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The people who promised to fix everything on day 1 are still out here blaming Joe Biden on day 467.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 23/04/2026
Wasn't there once some issue where the President's son was supposedly (though without much evidence) profiting off of his father's Presidency and it was the worst thing in the world during the last administration...
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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
What do you think this photo represents? Important men and their female support staff? A photo to celebrate some great accomplishment by Trump and the men in the photo? Nope. This is a photo of the Georgia Bulldogs National Championship Women Tennis Team What a fucking insult to these women
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19/04/2026
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/04/2026
"The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that's the threshold for mentally handicapped ... they're a net drain on the society" -- even by MAGA standards, the unvarnished racism of this interview of Rep. Brandon Gill by Benny Johnson is breathtaking
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/03/2026
BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...
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NEW: ICE Raided Children's Dorms at Dilley and Confiscated Their Letters. I'm Suing to Get Them Back.
In our latest lawsuit, MSW Media is demanding children's letters confiscated by ICE agents, and the Office of General Counsel memo authorizing warrantless home entry.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
8 million No Kings protesters Zero police officers beaten Zero police officers killed Zero feces smeared on walls.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Class vs. ass:
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Nuclear safety, on Trumpism. What could possibly go wrong. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2026
Ossoff: "The American people need to know that the president is fundraising for his political campaign and his PAC using images of American service members killed in action, and it's a disgrace"
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).
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Steve @catmantoo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The only imminent threat was the release of the Epstein files.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
And to be clear, everyone was very aware that this was illegal, but Trump officials and DOGE didi it anyway. Multiple IRS acting commissioners were removed when they raised concerns. Pretty much the entire C-suite resigned. From last year: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/this-tax-d...
Trump has nominated Billy Long, a Congressman with no experience running a large organization, to lead the IRS. The outgoing Commissioner Danny Werfel offered to stay in the position until the new Commissioner was in place. But Trump’s Treasury appointees would not meet with him. So he resigned. He was replaced by an acting Commissioner, a career official named Doug O’ Donnell. O’ Donnell was out just after a month, after he rejected calls to share IRS data. Next up was acting Commissioner Melanie Krause. She was seen as more aligned with DOGE, and put the Chief Human Capital Officer on administrative for not being responsive enough to DOGE. Krause resigned in early April after DHS succeeded in accessing IRS data.

The fourth IRS Commissioner since January is already out. Gary Shapley was installed in the position by Elon Musk without the knowledge or agreement of Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary who oversees IRS. Shapley was announced for the position on April 16, and out by April 18 after Bessent pushed back against Musk usurping his powers. Musk has since attacked Bessent on social media. He will be replaced by another acting Commissioner until Billy Long is confirmed.

So: the IRS is on its fifth Commissioner in three months.

And no Chief Human Capital Officer. The Acting Chief Counsel was replaced with someone more DOGE-friendly after he resisted DOGE requests for data. Oh, and a few other people resigned after the privacy violations occurred. The Chief of Staff. The Chief Financial Officer. The Chief Risk Officer. The Chief Privacy Officer. The Chief Information Officer and his two deputies.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
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Kirk Murphy @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
“We have all been here before We have all been here before”
Plan of lower deck with the stewage of 292 slaves.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
It's like ICE is completely ignoring every lesson that moderately competent police forces are forced to learn, like "don't do high speed chases in densely populated areas with low risk targets"
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Rebel with a Cause @rebelwithacause2.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Casting a vote in a polling station is a constitutionally protected right. Murdering people in cold blood in the street is not. Thank you for your attention to this matter, Mr. Emmer.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The regime is going to court to overrule a judge’s order to release 5 year old Liam Ramos from custody. They’re spending tax dollars fighting to lock up a child Arguing to send him back to a camp where children scream “let us out”. A camp with a measles outbreak. Monsters.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The "violent criminal illegal alien" that agents were pursuing when they killed Alex Pretti has been in the U.S. for two decades. He had a single misdemeanor conviction for disorderly conduct (domestic assault) eight years ago that was expunged from his record. He did not have a deportation order.
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Agents were pursuing an immigrant when they killed Alex Pretti. Now, he shares his story.
"I was there. I saw everything," Jose Huerta Chuma, who remains in hiding, told CBS News.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 31/01/2026
They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 30/01/2026
LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: Kevin Warsh—expected to be Trump's Fed chair pick—is the son-in-law of Trump donor Ronald Lauder (billionaire Estée Lauder heir), who convinced Trump in 2018 of the need to annex Greenland (and then invested heavily there), and who benefits from the Ukraine rare-earth deal?
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Trump Administration Prepares for Warsh Fed Chair Nomination
The Trump administration is preparing for the president to nominate Kevin Warsh to be the next Federal Reserve chair, according to people familiar with the matter.
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NerdBrick @nerdbrick.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
People are claiming "Why bring a gun to a protest?" when ICE shot and killed the man. Are the same people that said Kyle Rittenhouse had a 2A right to carry a gun to a protest. Can't have it both ways. #FuckICE
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22/01/2026
It is funny that the current FBI director treats the job like it's a trip to Entourage Disneyland, but bear in mind that for us this is probably the best possible outcome. I do not want Trump's FBI director to actually care about the job
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/01/2026
“Even milliseconds or seconds of interrupted blood flow to the brain can have serious consequences,” one Harvard neurologist told us. There is no “method of applying pressure on the neck that is foolproof in terms of avoiding neurologic damage.” By @nicolefoy.bsky.social and @mckenziefunk.com
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/01/2026
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

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Wes Allen @fredwesley.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
"we haven't been able to juke the stats as much as we thought but we're still working on that."
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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onion person @junlper.beer · 07/01/2026
“in america, you deserve to be murdered by the state if you have gender pronouns in bio”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
What do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.
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Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Hegseth: "Can you guys help me get into my Roblox account?"
Hegseth is hunched over a computer with Trump and Rubio standing by
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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Green @gotist.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Totally secure, they have a blanket fort and everything.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
A USPS mailbox in New York City
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