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@k-the-writer.bsky.social
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Former journalist/photojournalist, attorney (animal welfare), activist, and now writer (WIP). Dog/cat mom, traveler (Italy), mysteries lover.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here. And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.
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Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
SHERO almost missed her flight to yell at Ted Cruz who was holding a press conference next to the security line at Houston airport. Nearly all TSA agent thanked her for calling him out on his BS. Republicans like him are responsible for the government shutdown and are why they aren’t getting paid
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Margaret Atwood 1990s interview, totally on point as always #handmaidstale #uspolitics #Portland #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
DC today
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Excellent and heart-breaking deep dive into the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans - who entered the US legally and suddenly find themselves without legal status, hunted by ICE.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
NEW: McCarthyism returns to immigration law, as @USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law and its definition is entirely up to the Trump admin.
August 19, 2025 PA-2025-16
Policy Alert
SUBJECT: Clarifying Discretionary Factors in Certain Immigration Benefit Requests
Purpose
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating policy guidance in the USCIS
Policy Manual regarding the factors that officers may consider in certain benefit requests where an
exercise of discretion is required, including factors relating to aliens’ past requests for parole and
any involvement in anti-American or terrorist organizations.
Background
For certain immigration benefit requests, such as adjustment of status, the alien bears the burden of
proof to demonstrate that a favorable exercise of discretion is warranted.1 For these benefit requests,
the discretionary analysis is a separate component of adjudicating the benefit request which occurs
after an officer determines whether all threshold eligibility requirements have been met. The act of
exercising discretion involves weighing positive and negative factors and considering the totality of
the circumstances in each case. There are various factors officers may consider when conducting a
discretionary analysis, including facts relating to an alien’s conduct, character, family ties,
immigration history, and any humanitarian concerns.
USCIS guidance provides that an alien’s compliance with immigration laws is a relevant factor when
determining if a favorable exercise of discretion is warranted. USCIS is updating the Policy Manual
to provide additional guidance for officers on the significant negative discretionary weight USCIS
assigns in circumstances where an alien has endorsed, promoted, supported, or otherwise espoused
the views of a terrorist organization or group, including those who support or promote anti-American
ideologies or activities, antisemitic terrorism, antisemitic terrorist organizations, and antisemitic
ideologies, in any case involving an exercise of discretion.2
In cases where the alien has engaged in such activities, USCIS will enforce all relevant …
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/08/2025
In 2022, after years of violations, the FDA imposed its toughest penalty on global drugmaker Sun Pharma: banning one of its factories from shipping drugs to the U.S. But the agency undercut its own decision by quickly exempting more than a dozen drugs from the ban.
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A Giant Indian Drugmaker Failed to Fix Safety Breaches. The FDA Let It Off the Hook Again and Again.
Documents obtained by ProPublica offer a rare glimpse into discussions between the global drugmaker Sun Pharma and the FDA, exposing how the agency tolerated substandard manufacturing for years.
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 13/08/2025
This:⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 25/07/2025
Trump is openly musing about building a mass detention system under his direct and sole authority — and the rapid expansion of ICE is the start. Ansley Skipper analyzes the risks of prolonged detention and the creation of a parallel carceral system altogether. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/ice-may-be...
BY THE NUMBERS
Why Mass Deportation also means Mass Detention 
Trump is building a parallel prison system ripe for autocratic abuse A DANGEROUS BUILD UP
Trump plans to dramatically expand immigrant detention into a parallel prison system accountable primarily to him. 
ICE detention facilities will have almost double the annual budget as the Bureau of Prisons.
ICE Detention Facilities
$14B  
Bureau of Prisons
$8.6B  
Sources: Bureau of Prisons, Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025; ICE Detention Facilities, Annual funding average from FY2025 to FY2029, Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 and One Big Beautiful Bill Act, EOIRA as of 6/30/25, DHS, Office of the Chief Immigration Judge  LIMITED OVERSIGHT
ICE is flooding investment into mass deportation and detention without corresponding support for oversight. 
Detention
+308%

Transportation & Removal
+500%

Oversight
+0%

DHS has further dismantled existing oversight offices. 
 
Office of the Immigration Ombudsman 

Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman

Office of Civil Rights and Civil LibertiesBACKLOG TO GROW
Prolonged detention is likely as an expansion in enforcement far outpaces judicial capacity.

+10,000 Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) agents +130%

+100  Immigration Judges +14%

3.8 million backlog of immigration cases
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/07/2025
This is a human rights violation. Multiple detainees described a disturbing incident where dozens of men were forced to eat food they had been denied all day while shackled. “We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,” — from a new Human Rights Watch report.
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The list of crimes this regime has/is committing keeps growing... #LawlessRegime #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CivilRights #HumanRights #UnconstitutionalActions
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This is state media. Like RT or CCTV.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/07/2025
You may not feel it, but the ground beneath you may be sinking. In fact, the surface of California’s Central Valley is nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was a century ago. Why is this happening? Because our planet is rapidly drying. THREAD/
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DuncanYoudaho @danlearnsstuff.com · 26/07/2025
Read the whole thing
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
In 2016 this guy went to a law office with the goal of killing his wife’s lawyer. He hacked a woman to death with a machete and bludgeoned two other people to death (including a man he falsely thought was that lawyer), then set fire to the building to cover his tracks. Anyway, Trump just freed him.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
#StaceyAbrams explains how to achieve an #autocracy in 10 steps. We're at step 9. The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
What’s the next likely stage with a network of concentration camps? Forced slave labor. As historian Timothy Snyder urges, CEOs should pledge to not hire these laborers and each of us should pledge not to buy from or invest in companies that do. www.americaamerica.news/p/will-we-to...
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S Gayle Stevens @sgaylestevens.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Definitely watch this and share this.
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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
1/ Moira Donegan points out how important it is to distinguish what SCOTUS *says* they are doing, vs. the real impact of their ruling. No pay wall.
theguardian.com
The US supreme court has dramatically expanded the powers of the president | Moira Donegan
Trump will now have the presumptive power to persecute you, and nullify your rights in defiance of the constitution, at his discretion
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WIRED @wired.com · 05/07/2025
Americans are taking to the streets by the tens of thousands to protest a plethora of President Donald Trump’s second-term policies. If you’re planning to protest, here’s what you need to know.
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How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid
If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
CALL CALL CALL YOUR REPS! THE VOTE HASN'T HAPPENED YET, PEOPLE here's the number: (202) 224-3121
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2025
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"How does it feel to get arrested at 87 years old? He said "I'm just beginning!"
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SDK_Resists @sdk-resists.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=DNkA...
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🚨🚨 Republicans CAUGHT attempting RIG next election
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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WIRED @wired.com · 15/06/2025
An airline-owned data broker collected US travelers’ flight records, sold them to Customs and Border Protection, and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to a contract obtained by 404 Media.
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Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 15/06/2025
Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
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LR Detherage @lr-detherage.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Shut the fuck up friends
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Modern tyranny is terror management. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
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The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Repost if YOU are going to a No Kings Day rally on Trump’s birthday, June 14th. This is a great summary of what the events are for and why it’s important to TURN OUT! Please watch and share.
youtu.be
We're CRASHING Trump's Birthday Party
YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
an absolutely wild story in which @dell.bsky.social parsed through hundreds of records that reveal: - farm industry going undercover to spy on animal rights activists - reporting back to the fbi - pushes to label activists as “bioterrorists”
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How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as Bioterrorists
For years, a powerful ‘Big Ag’ trade group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a “bioterrorism” threat.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A lawless regime
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035.  Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.
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Trump’s tax bill to cost 830,000 jobs and drive up bills and pollution emissions, experts warn
Bill will unleash millions more tonnes of planet-heating pollution and couldn’t come at a worse time, say experts
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/05/2025
THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 13/05/2025
WATCH: @aoc.bsky.social explains how the Republican bill will: - Gut Medicaid - Increase premiums for private health insurance - Force rural hospitals to close All to give a giant tax handout to billionaires.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Latest: The DHS has delivered three dozen more immigration detainees to Guantanamo Bay. The total number of men in ICE custody there this morning is 69 men, ostensibly held for deportation. Now, 26 are held at the Pentagon prison, Camp 6, that was built for Al Qaeda suspects.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
WATCH: “This is how Fox spreads disinformation. It’s sad to see Alexis McAdams be part of that machine.” Receipts of Fox News lying to their audience about the arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka with false headlines and selectively edited clips. As usual.
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WIRED @wired.com · 05/05/2025
OpenAI denies it is orchestrating viral photo trends as a ploy to collect user data, yet the firm certainly gains an advantage from it, since uploaded photos come with a trove of valuable metadata. That metadata could put users’ privacy at risk.
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Think Twice Before Creating That ChatGPT Action Figure
People are using ChatGPT’s new image generator to take part in viral social media trends. But using it also puts your privacy at risk—unless you take a few simple steps to protect yourself.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Trump has ordered criminal investigations into more than 50 federal employees so far, including former intelligence officials, political rivals, and even members of his own administration. He has declared some “guilty of treason,”
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"I was just following orders"
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NPR @npr.org · 01/05/2025
The Trump administration, U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., ruled, does not "possess the lawful authority under the (Alien Enemies Act), and based on the Proclamation, to detain Venezuelan aliens, transfer them within the United States, or remove them from the country."
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Trump-appointed federal judge blocks use of Alien Enemies Act for Venezuelans in South Texas
The Trump administration, U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., ruled, does not "possess the lawful authority under the (Alien Enemies Act), and based on the Proclamation, to detain Venezuelan ...
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
💥 BAM! Federal judge rules that Donald Trump cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to detain or deport Venezuelan nationals
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 01/05/2025
🚨Jasmine Crockett & Eric Swalwell begged House Judiciary Republicans to vote NO. They offered deals, sweeteners, the whole package. And those damn soulless traitors STILL voted to let Trump exile American citizens. This isn’t just betrayal—it’s the birth of authoritarian rule. Sound the alarm.🚨
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US News Now - World’s leading Liberal Voice @democracyblue.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
BREAKING — Idaho just logged 15 new H5N1 bird flu infected dairy herds in one day That’s the biggest single-day spike in weeks. The virus is ripping through US agriculture—86 herds in Idaho, 1,047 nationwide. Still think this is under control? It’s not.
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three chickens wearing hats and sunglasses carrying boxes on their backs
ALT: three chickens wearing hats and sunglasses carrying boxes on their backs
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If empathy and simple decency won’t suffice to end the catastrophic madness that Israel is visiting on Gazans, hopefully self-interest can be mobilized by these well-documented revelations! As a Jewish American with cousins living in Israel, I’m devastated by this scheerpost.com/2025/04/25/w...
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Dennis Kucinich: War Dust and Collateral Inhalation — Israel Breathes in Gaza’s Death
A Forensic Study of the Self-Inflicted Consequences of Modern Warfare.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
J. D. Vance has cited Andrew Jackson to justify the idea that a president can disobey the federal judiciary’s rulings. The historical record says no such thing. Vance is either an ignoramus or a liar. I opt for both views of our deceitful Vice President. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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Vance’s Junk History | Sean Wilentz
When Donald Trump and his followers go in search of historical forerunners to justify their regime, they turn with striking regularity to the presidency
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🤦🏼 couldn’t make it up if we tried
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