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Lynne Cripe, PhD @lynnecripe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There is no better way to observe Poll Worker Recruitment Day than to sign up to be a poll worker! ✅ It's fun ✅ You get to serve your neighbors ✅ You get to cheer for first time voters ✅ You get an insider view to the many ways our elections are secure ✅ You help protect democracy

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OneAID @oneaid.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We’re thrilled to share this recap video highlighting OneAID’s work from the first half of 2026! 🔗 To make a tax deductible donation to OneAID: donate.mazloweb.com/donate/D6vLk...

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Lynne Cripe, PhD @lynnecripe.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Important thread ⬇️ There are multiple assaults happening on children and legal providers in the immigration system.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

👀Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas finds that illegal immigration under Biden massively reduced per capita transfers: 1% increase in flows cut transfers per capita by 5%! This is "consistent with the positive employment effects we find, which reduce the need for programs."

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Lynne Cripe, PhD @lynnecripe.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Lewis!!! What a wonderful win for LH and Ferrari. #F1

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Lynne Cripe, PhD @lynnecripe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Are you a small business owner wanting to protect your business AND democracy? Join @integrity-mttrs.bsky.social to learn how you can protect our elections.

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

What we found is bleak. Attorneys told us they’re struggling to get information in to or out of ICE and Customs and Border Protection facilities, which are holding nearly 69,000 people this month. And detainees often are forced to choose between remaining in crowded, squalid conditions or leaving the country immediately.

Judges in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have ordered the government to facilitate attorney-client communications at Homeland Security buildings. But attorneys say that doesn’t always happen. Even if detainees get the option, some worry they’ll be punished if they take it.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/01/2026

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jaypeg @jaypegplays.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund

atomicpolish.com

ICE Out - Fundraising Nail Polish

**Shipping Update** Shipping will continue once more ingredients have arrived for this polish. Orders should go out in about 2 weeks. Ice Out is a blurple based polish with a blue/aqua shift and pink ...

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

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Lynne Cripe, PhD @lynnecripe.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Beautiful thread. Read the replies.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 03/01/2026

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate:

1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest.

2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.

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3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.

Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling.

And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze.

The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 24/12/2025

While I was in prison, I was the food procurement clerk. It was my job to work with the first cook to design the daily food menu and then make sure the men were fed on a budget of $2.60 per person per day. How I helped make the best Christmas prison meal, a thread.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

uni-konstanz.de

Early Career Rescue Fellowship

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NPR @npr.org · 11/11/2025

Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.

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Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa

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Lynne Cripe, PhD @lynnecripe.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

THEY. HAVE. NO. SHAME. How do you not know this by now?

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Lynne Cripe, PhD @lynnecripe.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I spent last evening at a volunteer-led fundraiser for HIV NGOs around the world who have been left high and dry because of the illegal dismantling of USAID. Most of the attendees were un- or underemployed aid workers. Rounds has done nothing to prevent either. He can pound sand. Do your job.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.

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Lynne Cripe, PhD @lynnecripe.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Not the most important issue tonight by any stretch of the imagination, but can anyone tell me where @nicollewallace.bsky.social got the sweater she’s wearing on @msnbc.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 08/10/2025

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Today, I am making a long overdue post, adding USAID to Courage is Contagious On March 5, USAID wrote a dissent letter. It read:

A drawing of civil servants from NIH, NSF, EPA, USAID, CDC, FEMA and NASA, symbolizing the organizations that have signaled dissent.

USAID DART worker carrying a sack of food.

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Lynne Cripe, PhD @lynnecripe.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Some USAID love from Keri Russell ♥️

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 19/09/2025

Note, they are looking for RIF'd employees to sign too. Take a look and consider signing.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

COMING UP: The fate of hundreds of unaccompanied minor children hangs in the balance as a federal judge, Tim Kelly, weighs whether to block their summary removal from the United States. At 2 p.m. ET, Kelly will hear argument on the children’s motion to enjoin their deportation. Follow along ⬇️ 🧵

E Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse in DC

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

As grim as this story may be, there's still much to be inspired by. Look no further than this attorney for the children, who rushed to the airport to stop the planes. She stood near the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-judicial-learning-curve

Armed with Judge Sooknanan's restraining order, Flores arrived at the airport to search for A.R.M.D. and others. On the tarmac, she saw two ICE transport planes, their doors sealed shut. Nearby, she spotted a building and knocked on the door. Through the glass, she could see officers seated inside. Eventually, a young man answered the door. Flores explained that she had clients on one of the planes and a court order to stop it from leaving.
While the young man disappeared inside the building to find his supervisor, Flores waited next to the door. She told anyone who entered or exited the building that they "were all complicit in violating a federal court order" if the plane left with her clients aboard.
Eventually, when the young man returned, he told Flores that his supervisor was trying to contact ICE. But as Flores again tried to explain that she had a court order, another official stepped outside and
"physically pulled the young man back into the building." Through the glass, she saw staff members "jeering and laughing." She repeated her earlier warning: If the plane carrying her clients took off, they were "all complicit in the violation of the judge's order."

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Lynne Cripe, PhD @lynnecripe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This excellent article by @annabower.bsky.social documents efforts to prevent the illegal deportation of unaccompanied children to Guatemala. While the cruelty of the regime is well established, there is something so depraved about the deliberate harm inflicted on children.

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"Dismantling the US Agency for International Development will cost more than $6 billion, including hundreds of millions needed to fight legal challenges over the shutdown and dismissal of thousands of its workers, according to a State Department draft assessment." news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

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USAID Shutdown Costs Top $6 Billion, Internal Estimate Shows

The estimate, included in a seven-page memo prepared for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, raises questions about how much President Donald Trump will ultimately save taxpayers by closing USAID and othe...

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Incredible reporting by the Washington Post on the Trump administration's hurried, lawless effort to carry out illegal renditions to El Salvador - to terrorize people. (Including how they violated court directives.) Take a moment to read the entire thing: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Trump’s 48-hour scramble to fly migrants to a Salvadoran prison

The administration rounded up some of the Venezuelans two days before the flights took off, pressing forward even as Venezuela agreed to accept deportees.

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Lynne Cripe, PhD @lynnecripe.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

That is some moral clarity. “This is violence disguised as law.”

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 09/04/2025

Friends and former USAID global public health professionals have launched an emergency campaign to support high-impact local HIV organizations with stop gap funding. Please consider supporting to directly help them continue HIV services in the near term while they plan for the future. 🧵1

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A Crisis in Care: Urgent Funding Needed to Sustain Lifesaving HIV Services - GlobalGiving

The abrupt termination of USAID-supported HIV programs has created a devastating crisis for vulnerable communities, leaving children, families, and at-risk populations without essential services. Thes...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

ALERT: Are you the State Dept or USAID? I’m looking for info on repurposing unused USAID funds for ICE and mass deportation. Contact me on Signal at joshtpm.99 you can also reach me with encrypted mail at joshtpm at protonmail dot com

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 01/04/2025

Taking a step back to remind us of the broader impact of the shut-down in Foreign AID. 🧵1

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Lynne Cripe, PhD @lynnecripe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

16 hours and 24 minutes and counting. It has been riveting. @booker.senate.gov's moral clarity is inspiring.

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Lynne Cripe, PhD @lynnecripe.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This story is WILD. Any of us regular folks wouldn’t have a job after an incident like this. And rightfully so.

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Brad Schimel, MAGA Supreme Court candidate in Wisconsin: * supports 1849 abortion ban * as AG, left 6,000 rape kits untested * said he was “honored” to be named in Planned Parenthood v Brad Schimel * said female Justices were “too driven by emotion” in abortion case … bad for Wisconsin women.

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