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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I spoke with @chrislhayes.bsky.social about yesterday’s decision in the birthright citizenship case. That this was not a unanimous decision by the Court should mute any inclination to celebrate unreservedly.

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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I was at Delaney Hall yesterday. Everything the detainees wrote in their S.O.S. letter is 100% correct. DHS is lying to keep their abuses from being exposed. And to make things worse, they pepper sprayed @kim.senate.gov and are lying about it to cover their tracks.

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A very American point of view. “Abortion is murder, but we are okay with a lot of murder actually and this might be one of those.”

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I encourage you to read the 1901 final Congressional speech of George Henry White, who would be the last Black man in Congress for 30 yrs.This “is perhaps the Negroes’ temporary farewell to the American Congress; but…phoenix-like he will rise up some day and come again… blackpast.org/african-amer...

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(1901) Congressman George H. White's Farewell Address To Congress

In January 1901, at the beginning of a new century, George H. White was ending his term as a Congressman from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District. Realizing that he was bringing to a close ...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

No sugar-coating the Court’s decision today. Real talk. @allinwithchris.bsky.social

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

And thus you get: “I don’t want to harm Black people! I’m just trying to disadvantage Democrats, urban centers in the South, and college students, and I like those county lines we drew between 1875 and 1924.”

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I’m waiting for “Winnie-the-Pooh, Thunderdome.”

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This whole thing isn’t going well.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 17/03/2026

No water for ICE: the city of Social Circle, Georgia, has cut off water and sewer services at the warehouse-turned-detention center and locked the water meter. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/w...

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No water for ICE: Utilities to planned Georgia detention center cut off

Officials said water would remain off until ICE answers the city's requests.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

That the Trump admin is detaining and deporting immigrant journalists from the South should be a much bigger story. First Mario Guevara, who was taken in Atlanta, GA and deported. Now Estefany Rodriguez, detained in Nashville, TN while in her news van.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Civil Rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has passed. A great man who did great things. I’ll never forget when he called my sisters and me to Operation PUSH in Chicago to be honored when we won the state tennis championship. He had been following our progress. So honored. 🥹

L-R: My sister Ngozi Okorafor, me, Rev. Jackson, my sister Ifeoma Okorafor

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked. When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.

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Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017

Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

This needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

True, my sample comes from cases that end in conviction, and I also argue based on the favorable video when it exists. But I’ve seen many cases where the officer’s testimony contradicting the video carries the day. And appeals courts will often affirm despite video that they can also view.

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Yes, that certainly happens, and I use the videos too. But I get plenty of cases where the video SHOULD win it but doesn’t through some combination of how it was taken or the court crediting what the officer says over what’s in the video (and the appeals court, which also has the video, affirms).

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.

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Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos

A protest broke out Saturday at the ICE-run South Texas family detention complex in Dilley, where five-year-old Liam Ramos is being detained.

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Absolutely! I do state criminal appeals, and all I see is body camera footage used to convict. And often the part that might be helpful to the accused is (take your pick) obscured by my coat, my partner didn’t turn his on, that first portion has no sound, I was facing away, etc….

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

As one of the 1,000s from whom she’s heard in the last week, I’m glad to see this statement from my representative. No money for ICE or CBP!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

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Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home

DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

And now you can always talk about how seasoned it is and your firmly held convictions about how it should — and should NOT — be cleaned.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I think the next pivot will be back to full focus on the stabbing in Charlotte.

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Ridiculous to anyone who knows Charlotte. But the President has got the perfect visual to call for lynching by death penalty - without needing a full page ad in the NYT this time - and folks want to oblige in any way they can.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Begging people not to treat open white supremacy from the Supreme Court as incomprehensible inconsistency.

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

As someone who handles state court criminal appeals, Kav’s approach is both shocking and familiar. It’s of a piece with how courts wave away egregious search tactics in low profile cases. But here our highest court is doing it when the whole country can see the lie.

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

And it looks like you’ve stepped up every element. That’s no graham cracker…and do I spy dark chocolate?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.” He was just taken into ICE custody.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/08/2025

Children in Gaza play with a parachute from airdropped aid amid Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians and forced starvation in the besieged enclave.

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Being my age with kids my children’s age means I can’t get the finale K Pop Demon Hunters song “What it sounds like” out of my head AND I can’t stop mentally adding the words “…when doves cry!”

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

And thus it became clear that, like the courts, the apples would not save us.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like. I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

To accurately celebrate our nation this 4th of July, it is now recommended that you do, in fact, place your face directly over the firework when you light it.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/06/2025

BREAKING: EPA workers published a letter of dissent against the administration's policies that undermine the EPA's mission and threaten the health of people and the planet.

To: Administrator Zeldin,

CC: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Members of Congress

Declaration of Dissent
In solidarity with other federal organizations across the country, civil servants throughout the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) join in dissent of this administration's policies -- policies that undermine EPA's mission and threaten the health of people and the planet. The mission of the EPA is to protect human health and the environment. Since the Agency's founding in 1970, we at EPA have accomplished our mission by leveraging science, funding, and expert staff in service to the American people. Today we stand together in dissent of the current administration's counterproductive focus on excessive deregulation, blatant partisanship, and mischaracterization of Agency decisions under past administrations.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 27/06/2025

"It's fine because the executive order is still barred in blue states." Folks, PEOPLE IN RED STATES DESERVE HUMAN RIGHTS TOO, AND LOTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND MARGINALIZED PEOPLE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE EO LIVE IN RED STATES.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 27/06/2025

No, the fight isn't over. Yes, class relief is possible. But people WILL be harmed by today's decision and its effect will NOT be minor.

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John Carella @johnjaan.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

My favorite small prophetic moment from her books is a scene in Adulthood Rites where Akin tastes a small piece of plastic from the remains of Earth, instantly reacts to it as poison, and is stunned to learn this stuff was once everywhere.

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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 22/06/2025

Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚

A photograph of author Octavia E. Butler.

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