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Philanthropy, misanthropy, fandoms, housing policy, homelessness, anti-carceral, police reform, feminism, reproductive rights. Non-binary bisexual. she/her

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
stop treating the culture wars as an exogenous shock. political actors made strategic choices to create and weaponize them. they are not a curious weather condition public schools failed to dress appropriately for.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The second suit, which names 30 providers, organizations, and pharmacies, seeks injunctions, damages—and threatens RICO claims down the line.
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
8/ The portal for state officials to upload voter lists was supposed to launch today, according to the whistleblower. It's unclear if that will still happen, given the plan to make it mandatory for states is currently blocked.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The crisis of federalism continues. Trump also falsely accused CO of fraud and tried to cut off its federal foodstamp benefits to punish the state for punishing Tina Peters, the election denier. CO lost a water project over it, too. They lost a climate research center. All for upholding state law.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I hate that we have let the nastiest racists on earth define and redefine our language. From "woke" to "DEI." Trump's policies are not anti-DEI. They are racist. US firms did not abandon DEI policies. They fired competent black women in droves on the basis of race and sex.
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
30/x What they want is cover for bigotry. Remember, in the GOP's own telling trans kids asking nicely to play with their peers has justified riling up racist hatred against the people of Springfield who moved their specifically bc they were asked to help out the economy.
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
23/x Bathroom bills operate similarly. When cis women went viral talking about being attacked for gender non-conformity, the flood of red state bathroom bills didn't slow down. Why? Because they were never intended to protect CIS WOMEN. They were intended to protect CIS BULLIES.
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
22/x In other words, Red states are establishing a legal regime which protects bullies from the consequences of their choices by recategorizing bullying as defense of the law.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14/08/2026
“If we ban sports betting, the people at those companies will lose their jobs” good
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
And if you think the US is more totalitarian than China, then you really know nothing about China. Stephen Miller would give his left nut to have the concentration camp system they set up for Uighurs or for the People's Armed Police to replace his unreliable and unfit ICE goons.
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Antifascist Militant @antifasictmilatant.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Iran is done talking until trump is gone. Which means if we want lower gas prices we should hand trump over to Iran immediately
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
150,000 kids in Minnesota rely on SNAP to put food on the table. They're not refusing to work. They're children. The Trump admin tried to take food away from them. Now they're bragging about it. I sued them, and we've won in court again and again to protect SNAP benefits for Minnesota families.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Trump administration is neglecting VA staff and facilities to shift resources into the private sector Community Care program. They aim to destroy VA, which spent 20 years (from the 1990s to 2010s) as the jewel of public healthcare. Their intent is to prove that public healthcare doesn't work.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
lives,” Austin police opened fire in 3 seconds to murder an unarmed child in distress holding a water bottle. This begs questions. Why is “I was scared” a magical get out of jail free card for cops?
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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/07/2026
Camp East Montana is known as a "graveyard for living people" where at least three people have died. Our recent litigation shows its horrors — medical neglect, beatings, minimal sunlight, filthy conditions, inedible food, and more. If ICE won't do anything about it, we'll keep seeing them in court.
apnews.com
ICE extends no-bid contract for major detention center in Texas, rejecting calls for closure
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to keep one of its largest detention facilities open for at least another year.
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maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
These DOJ cases keep falling apart but the conviction isn’t the full end goal. the process itself of being assaulted and arrested is to instill fear and sow hesitancy for others to come out and join the widespread opposition to this campaign of terror. they are losing. they will keep losing.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 21/07/2026
Every now and then, it’s worth saying what ought to be obvious: trans people have always existed, and will exist as long as humans do. They’ve not done anything wrong by wanting their existence recognised, supported, and celebrated. The transformation of their existence into “an issue” is evil.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Russell Vought should be impeached, and Stephen Miller can and should be impeached too. The Constitution does not limit the term “civil officer” to Senate appointed officers.
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🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈 @kestra.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Look into new private schools popping up in places that have passed vouchers. Marvel at how their tuition exactly matched the voucher limits.
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Lillian @ladybuck44.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
He MUST be prosecuted. No turning the other cheek. If the United States government had dealt firmly and effectively with the treasonous Confederacy we would NOT be revisiting this tyranny now. Every-time the oath “the confederacy will rise again!” Was uttered it should have been dealt as crime!
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It's amusing that Sparta managed to get this hyper-macho reputation when a) Sparta had ritualized, institutionalized same-sex pederasty, b) their tyranny over Athens lasted basically a year, and c) they were annihilated by the Thebans 30 years later and the Macedonians 40 years after that
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I have said repeatedly that Russell Vought should be impeached. Congress appropriates and this is a high crime against its powers under Article I. The most important thing DOGE did was take over the appropriations pipes at Treasury. If you wanted to close USAID and CFPB pass a bill.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
People are shocked when they come to DC now and see groups of fully armed soldiers patrolling our neighborhoods. Trump's occupation of DC has been going on for nearly a year — and he wants it to go on forever. We refuse to allow this to become normalized and continue to call for it to end.
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A year into a national guard deployment, DC residents say they live in ‘a city under siege’
Since Trump deployed troops last August, Washingtonians have banded together to resist and support one another
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
NEW: A 5-year-old girl spent months in federal immigration custody here in Connecticut while her family waited for her release. Her case isn’t unique, experts and court records show. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
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5-year-old spent 118 days on her own in federal immigration custody in CT
On any given day there are more than two dozen immigrant children detained without a parent or guardian in programs run by Connecticut nonprofits.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Abolish ICE
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026
WHITEHOUSE: How long do you intend to put up with Kash Patel? Are you good w/ his airplane jaunts, are you confident he's not drinking on the job, are you sure he knows what he's doing? BLANCHE: That's an extraordinarily obnoxious question. I have full faith in Patel W: Great. You get to own that
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
‼️Ukraine will receive licenses to produce Aster-30 anti-aircraft missiles for the SAMP/T air defense system,AASM Hammer aerial bombs &SCALP cruise missiles President Macron: Ukraine will get the first batch of SAMP/T missiles&16 Rafale aircraft&the accompanying weapon systems
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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Again, the field of extremism studies will never advance unless we start openly talking and writing about violence inflicted by the state. Specifically how state violence is the direct result of the government’s official foreign and domestic policy being based on a racist conspiracy theory.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/07/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge says President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS was filed for an "improper purpose" and refers attorneys for disciplinary action.
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Judge blasts Trump's IRS lawsuit as filed for 'improper purpose,' recommends attorney discipline
A federal judge says President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns was filed for an “improper purpose” as she referred attorneys for disciplinary actions.
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I Resist Fascist Trump @harrypotterresists.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
YESTERDAY - ST. CHARLES, CHICAGO While handcuffed and not resisting, ICE agents smashed a man’s face into a stone wall, then assaulted a U.S. citizen multiple times, once they realized they were being filmed by him and other people, who were also threatened by Trump’s thugs. #ICEOUT
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I really don't know what we do about living in a digital age where "the left" as it is understood and monetized online has basically zero connection-- ideological or otherwise-- to the actual movement in this country. It's a bunch of reactionaries who rode the Bernie train to niche fame.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Judge Jeannette Vargas just permanently barred the regime from freezing $16 billion for the Hudson tunnel—using Trump's DOJ's own words against it. The filing admitted it "flagrantly violates federal law." www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-went...
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Defiance Dispatch @defiancedispatch.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Last night at Delaney Hall shows what our collective power can achieve. These fascists are afraid of that power! Credits: @lindseyiancole
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 06/07/2026
I’ve taken to telling people that if the Supreme Court can just arbitrarily decide precedents (eg humphreys executor) that have stood for longer than I’ve been alive now need to go because they got in the way of mister Trump, we don’t have rule of law
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I started contacting legislators and lawyers after this, and started following a two-part track: 1. To work with the CA Legislature to reform the penal code (still in progress) 2. To pursue litigation over what happened to me, AND to force a law change at the city level. I did both.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 05/07/2026
ICE flights. Saturday, July 4, 2026. At least 85 flights on 28 planes. At least 12 removal flights, 6 to Mexico alone. One year ago today, ICE sent 8 men to South Sudan. Only 3 have been released. Still jailed: Enrique Arias-Hierro, Kyaw Mya, Nyo Myint, Thongxay Nilakout & José Rodriguez-Quiñones.
An ADSBx map of the Americas showing 28 planes doing dozens of flights branching out from Louisiana and Texas toward northern cities (round-up flights), Central America (removal flights), and going between ICE detention hubs (shuffle flights).
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/06/2026
everyone I know who worked in foreign aid had issues with the structure of U.S. foreign aid, but since those people aren’t brain-dead sociopaths, they didn’t think destroying the entire program was the solution either
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/06/2026
Considering that USAID has been destroyed and that millions are dying as a result, you don’t fucking get to pretend your “USAID was a foul tool of American imperialism” take is merely hypothetical. Stop being a sniveling little weasel and own it: you think the deaths of all those kids is worth it.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
And this has all gotten worse since Citizens United...and all the assaults on voting rights are designed to weaken support for what could be called the Supermajority Agenda...because oligarchs, MAGA & corporate Dems are united in their opposition to anything that hits their bottom line or influence.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22/06/2026
BREAKING: A judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking access to Maryland's unredacted voter registration list, ruling that it was not a record the department could obtain through legal force under federal law. The DOJ is now 0-9 in its effort to force states to divulge their private voter data.
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DOJ now 0-9 in voter roll cases after Trump-appointed judge tosses its Maryland demand
In total, the DOJ has brought 31 voter roll lawsuits against states and Washington, D.C.
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Phrenologyhead ❌👑🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 (she/her) @phrenologyhead.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
One of my friends makes a point of stopping each time he encounters the National Guard and reminding them of their oath to the Constitution. I have started doing the same and also letting them know that we do not need or want them here. We all need to stop walking by them as if it’s normal.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Stopping what is currently happening in Lebanon requires creative solutions rather than conventional approaches that have become obsolete. Lebanon is suffering from a lack of attention from countries that were once its allies.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
But here is a great example of how the reality of capacity constraints (structural and ability-wise) translated into setting money on fire, almost literally.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ths is flying under the radar, but Russ Vought is advancing a new scheme to give Trump's cronies total control of nearly $179B in federal grant funds. Billions for lifesaving disaster relief and medical research would be subject to Trumpian loyalty oaths. Make no mistake: this is fascism.
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Alarm Grows Over Vought Plan to Give Trump Cronies Control of Federal Grant Money | Common Dreams
"The test will be a simple one: Are you sufficiently loyal to the president? If the answer is no, it will result in the
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