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Leslie Fain 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

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Resistor, LGBTQ+ ally, BLM, animal rescuer, ready to fight on.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Six months ago, the federal government indicted me, my friend Andre, and four others for protesting ICE. Our trial is this month and we are facing up to $250k in legal debt. Please help us win our case and protect all of our rights by donating to our legal defense: tinyurl.com/katandre
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
How the fuck does the GOP explain this? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
‘Jim Crow on steroids’: Tennessee gerrymander included nixing rule that voters must be notified about new districts
County election commissions will no longer be required to directly notify voters when their polling place or precinct changes.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
They flashbanged a car full of kids. A car full of fucking kids.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Right after Renée Good’s disgusting murder, a ICE goon was filmed kicking her memorial candles. Absolutely vile.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This has not gotten much attention, but it should. Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE. Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Read this and be petrified. And then get organized.
nytimes.com
Trump Empowers Election Deniers, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/10/2025
So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.
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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports. Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase. Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 01/10/2025
History’s tyrants followed this same path — and those citizens who failed to resist lost their nations forever… hartmannreport.com/p/is-america...
hartmannreport.com
Is America Sleepwalking Into The Dictator’s Playbook?
History’s tyrants followed this same path — and those citizens who failed to resist lost their nations forever…
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I’d like one newspaper to try out the headline “Republicans fail to attract Democratic votes they need to end shutdown” as a little treat.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This is what Ice is doing in front of the cameras, imagine what they’re doing when no one is filming
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Remember that new study? Yeah we been knowing. 96% of BLM protests were peaceful; same for 99% of the pro-Palestine protests… And while I saw lots of reports on the study, I can’t say the same for the bigger news: That Trump scraped the study from all government websites — like it never existed!
theguardian.com
US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence
Report finding rightwing extremists have killed more Americans than other domestic terrorist groups vanished from DoJ website
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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
NEW: We’ve spent the past 4 months investigating a detention center on the tarmac of a rural airport in Alexandria - a legal “black hole” & Trump’s deportation hub We uncovered a pattern of alleged due process violations, poor medical treatment, overcrowding, health emergencies, abuse & long stays:
theguardian.com
Trump’s deportation hub: inside the ‘black hole’ where immigrants disappear
A Guardian investigation into the Alexandria facility reveals a pattern of alleged due process violations, previously unreported accounts of neglect and abuse, documented health emergencies and long s...
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 24/08/2025
ICE arrested the husband of a Dem candidate, a disabled U.S. Army vet in a wheelchair, at his own naturalization hearing. Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry has lived here 25+ yrs, earned multiple medals, & served with Veterans for Peace. He has a green card. This is racist political persecution.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This should be a Five Alarm Fire on every G'ddamned media outlet in the world. I very rarely post a link to someone else's newsletter...as I have my own. This, however...is a MUST see. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
open.substack.com
Ex-CIA Whistleblower: "The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won"
Math doesn’t lie—people do. A buried NSA‑authorized audit paved the way for this unelected illegitimate regime.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I just witnessed a man dragged onto this bus after a judge did not let him explain how deportation could be a death sentence for him. And it's happening here. What I saw today in San Antonio immigration courts was horrifying. Everyone's right to due process is under attack. Congressman Greg Casar
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 28/07/2025
⚡️Propaganda campaign mimics Kyiv Independent to spread fake news, targets US. Videos and social media posts circulating online impersonate the Kyiv Independent's branding, falsely claiming that President Volodymyr Zelensky has imposed sanctions on a list of American citizens.
kyivindependent.com
Propaganda campaign mimics Kyiv Independent to spread fake news, targets US
Videos and social media posts circulating online impersonate the Kyiv Independent's branding, falsely claiming that President Volodymyr Zelensky has imposed sanctions on a list of American citizens, s...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/07/2025
Epstein survivor Theresa Helm on Trump possibly pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: "It would mean the complete crumbling of this justice system."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/07/2025
ICE is going to get someone killed. This was outside 100 Montgomery in SF’s Financial District. If you needed proof these rookie hires aren’t trained, here it is. Real feds de-escalate. They call for backup. They don’t drag people down the street w/a car. Hope everyone’s OK. (Multi-angle footage)
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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The Trump administration wants us to be okay with migrants not getting due process, being detained in conditions that members of Congress can't inspect, and dying with no information or transparency about what happened. 75% of migrants deported to CECOT had no criminal records. Some were legal.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
MEMPHIS — YESTERDAY: “He’s not a criminal!!” ICE agent clumsily PULLS A GUN on the daughter of a man they grabbed. Original post: www.facebook.com/share/v/12LM...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2025
Angie Craig: "I have no idea why we think it's a good idea to repeal a tax on silencers when we are going to feed fewer children in our country as a result of this. It's a moral damn failure is what it is."
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Jen 🦋. I Despise Trump !! @jensdad4biden.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Please donate If you are able . If you can’t donate , then please repost . Every little bit helps . Let’s help Heidy get into a safe and happy home so she can begin her new journey . 💙💙💙
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
ICE agents *know* what they are doing is probably illegal, which is why they try to conceal their identities with scarves and sunglasses. #AmericanGestapo
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
LA firefighters honored with standing ovation at 97th Academy Awards We're raising money for a victim of domestic abuse who recently became a victim of the Eaton fires in L.A. We're relocating her -- but we really need your help to move this along! Chip in $15, $25, $50 -- whatever you can below:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election. 70% of these donations went to Republicans. Now, Trump and the GOP are gutting the FEC — which enforces campaign finance and anti-corruption laws. See how this works?
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Leslie Fain 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @lesliefain.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Costco’s board voted 98-2 to keep their diversity, equity and inclusion polices. Saying that helps attract workers and customers: www.google.com/url?q=https:...
google.com
Costco shareholders just destroyed an anti-DEI push | CNN Business
Costco shareholders voted strongly against a proposal requesting a report on the risks of maintaining its diversity and inclusion initiatives, the U.S. company said on Thursday, sending a message runn...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Mark Zuckerberg’s charity quietly cuts funding for affordable housing, homelessness groups
mercurynews.com
Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy quietly cuts funding for affordable housing, homelessness groups
Many Bay Area housing orgs were caught up in the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s push to end ‘social advocacy’ grants in the wake of DEI scrutiny.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 21/04/2025
HHS Eliminated Programs - Updated Here is an updated list of all programs eliminated in the 2026 HHS Budget. Reach out if you have information or clarity on the cuts. These cuts will impact Every Single American. Email altcdc1@pm.me for PDF and xlsx.
A list of all  agencies and programs the Trump administration is seeking to eliminate. An accessible PDF is available from altCDC. Email altcdc1@pm.me.
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Cagedfox @cagedfox.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Bring back dei
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A new vector for spreading misinformation is simply to get your version of the story indexed by an AI chatbot where no fact check, Community Note or citation will point out that it’s a made up story. This will be extremely difficult to combat effectively.
detroitnews.com
Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way
In their race to push out new versions with more capability, AI companies leave users vulnerable to “LLM grooming” efforts that promote bogus information.
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The Legal Aid Society @legalaidnyc.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
URGENT: Our client at Bluebonnet Facility in the Northern District of Texas, represented by the @ACLU, was told he’ll be removed under the Alien Enemies Act TONIGHT/MORNING
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Betelgeuse (Haidar)🔻☭ @betelgeuse.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Is this the first example we have of this regime disappearing a U.S citizen to the death camp? Trump vowed to send Americans there and this looks like he's done precisely that.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner" www.404media.co/leaked-palan...
404media.co
Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature pa...
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Eric McD | Hill @ NPR @ericm.cd · 17/04/2025
I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
npr.org
Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Touring the country, doing media interviews, and promoting quack therapies for measles amid an epidemic, he's a dangerous megalomaniac and figurehead who's not actually in charge of the agency." www.signorile.com/p/rfk-jr-adm...
signorile.com
RFK Jr. admits he has no clue about cuts to vital HHS programs
Touring the country, doing media interviews, and promoting quack therapies for measles amid an epidemic, he's a dangerous megalomaniac and figurehead who's not actually in charge of the agency.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
There are three key facts in the Holocaust Encyclopedia produced by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the second key fact:

What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Bring back Kilmar Abrego García... NOW. 🧵(1 of 6)
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The Trump administration pays El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's government $6 million to house prisoners it sends to CECOT. That’s the prison where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is currently being held. If the US controls the purse strings, then don’t pay El Salvador until Abrego Garcia comes home.
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Wes Smith Ω 🧢 @wessmith123.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Mike Johnson, after he and the other boot-licking cowards in his party voted to cut food programs for children and throw grandmothers out of their nursing homes by cutting Medicaid. #Medicaid
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The Guardian reports that people at the SSA, the agency that manages benefits for nearly 70 million Americans, worry that it’s in a “death spiral” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Doge’s attack on social security causing ‘complete, utter chaos’, staff says
Understaffed agency sent into ‘death spiral’ as employees warn Musk-led cuts will lead to structural collapse
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SuzyQ @suzyqfit4u.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
🚨From Mia Farrow, this is a post by Eric Trump, it’s frightening, it’s in poor taste, and it’s criminal!!! 🚨🚨🚨
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
An article that makes you sick to your stomach.
motherjones.com
The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
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