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LAYNE

@overton-windshield.bsky.social
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Cranky abolitionist. Allegedly a media relations professional. Probably coming down with a bad case of rapid onset gender dysphoria. #FreePalestine #AbolitionNow 📍Philly Opinions are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer, family, or cat.

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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Maybe they are trying to make the fascists and the leftists both die of boredom
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"A death count on par with the Oklahoma City bombing is relegated to the back page."
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack
No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No segments on Evening News broadcasts. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.
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American Friends Service Committee @afsc-org.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The US has no credibility to talk about human rights while it disappears people at home, murders people in Latin America, and supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza and unilateral attacks on neighboring countries. Last year, Israel bombed Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran, and Qatar.
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American Friends Service Committee @afsc-org.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Trump says he wants regime change in Iran. History shows us that regime changes imposed by imperialist violence are devastating failures even on their own terms. Attempting this in Iran would almost certainly require a protracted war with US troops on the ground.
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American Friends Service Committee @afsc-org.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The justifications used by the Trump admin are lies: ➡️ Iran has no long-range missiles that can reach the US ➡️ Iran had not restarted nuclear weapons production ➡️ The Iranian government has repeatedly said it has no interest in nuclear weapons and is willing to negotiate.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...
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Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All
In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We’re really emphasizing the MAN in MANIFEST DESTINY in tonight’s #SOTU 250 years of racism and imperialism. Here in Philly we say: #AbolishICE #FreePalestine #GoBirds
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Like Biden before him, Trump is continuing to enable the genocide in Gaza. Israel is killing people daily and blocking lifesaving food and supplies while the Trump Administration draws up plans for resorts and concentration camps on top of the rubble. #FreePalestine #SOTU
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
What's your point here?
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
And now for the hating trans people portion of #SOTU. Gender affirming care saves lives. Trans rights are human rights. Please just let us and our children be ourselves and live our lives. #ProtectTransKids
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
And permanently defund and dismantle DHS of course!
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We've gotten to the virulently white supremacist explicitly fascist portion of #SOTU. We need to #abolishICE, abolish border patrol, and end detention &deportation. We need investments in education, healthcare, jobs, the environment, and all the things that ACTUALLY keep our communities safe.
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
To be fair, I am sure some of them will also be nuclear power plants...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Okay so the ACA was a huge gift to big insurance companies when what we urgently need is #MedicareForAll. But taking away subsidies that help people afford overpriced insurance punishes regular people and keeps insurance companies rich. #SOTU
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is the reverse pomodoro and my preferred working method
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Honestly that would be a huge improvement
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It doesn't matter how many authoritarian charades USA Men's Hockey attends, thanks to #HeatedRivalry hockey is now officially gay. #SOTU #ProtectTransKids
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
You made the right choice, we are only a few minutes in and I am already awash in regret!
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American Friends Service Committee @afsc-org.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
During the State of the Union we will hear anti-immigrant rhetoric from an administration that is tearing apart our families and communities. But people across the U.S. are coming together to protect their neighbors and #AbolishICE afsc.org/news/what-yo... #SOTU
Sign that says DEFEND OUR COMMUNITIES, ABOLISH ICE with the AFSC logo
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Tonight is a good night to remember that #AbolishICE is polling better than both Trump and the Democratic Party. #SOTU
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I HAVE A PROBLEM
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I will know I have finally gone to enough therapy when I stop feeling compelled to watch the State of the Union live. #SOTU
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
But on the other hand, @washingtonpost.com accidentally gets it right. Though “no power” seems a little harsh, I like to believe that we have a lot of power if we can figure out how to collectively wield it. #AbolishICE
Washington Post screenshot of two headlines. The first one reads:

Shootings underscore how Kristi Noem has transformed DHS
 
The second one reads: About 1 million customers without power as risk of dangerous ice moves into Northeast
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Is @nytimes.com having another BAD TAKES competition? I am not sure that “confidence” really defines the nature of the crisis here… Also Thomas Friedman should relax, he already has the BAD TAKES lifetime achievement award. Truly thought the subhead was @nytpitchbot.bsky.social #AbolishICE
Screenshot of a New York Times headline that reads:

A Crisis of Confidence for
ICE and Border Patrol as
Clashes Escalate

Current and former officials describe growing frustration and disillusionment with the Trump administration's approach, even as they support the goal of immigration enforcement.A screenshot of a New York Times opinion piece that reads:

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Minneapolis and Gaza Now Share the Same Violent Language
When ICE and Hamas start looking the same, we are all in trouble.
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American Friends Service Committee @afsc-org.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
ICE does not belong in our communities. We will defend our communities in Minneapolis and across the country in our struggle for peace and justice. #AbolishICE
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
stakes are extremely high, literally life or death. We do NOT need ICE or CBP to have more training or oversight We do need all border, policing and military angencies to be defunded; end to fed & state partnerships (like sec 287g agreements); end to all detentions & deporations. Abolish borders.
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Did this general just say that the intelligence community worked hard to find Maduro’s pets? U.S. imperialist violence against Latin America is a bipartisan tradition, but this is deeply absurd as well as deeply horrifying.
US General speaks about U.S. regime change in Venezuela at White House press conference
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.
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Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Watching Trump speak and justify why the US is entitled to invade another country and kidnap the president makes me think that when we started talking about the “post-truth” era, we had no idea of how deeply post-truth it’d become. Perception of reality is now random and optional.
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio loves regime change in Latin America but Trump’s speech is so unhinged he looks like he might gnaw off his own arm to try to escape
Marco Rubio looks for exits during Trump speech
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Check out Jeanette Vizguerra and Jennifer Piper of @afsc-org.bsky.social on today’s episode of @democracynow.bsky.social “This demonstrates the fragility of their hold over everyday people when we stand up together.” www.democracynow.org/2025/12/24/j...
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“Never Stop”: Freed After 9 Months in ICE Jail, Immigrant Activist Jeanette Vizguerra Keeps Fighting
Democracy Now! speaks with longtime immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra, who was just released Monday from ICE jail after nearly 10 months in a Colorado detention center. Vizguerra was ambush...
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Really it could have been an email.
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Asking myself this too. Clearly we are all not going to enough therapy.
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I am personally having a national energy emergency listening to this Trump address. But I do truly enjoy that the TrumpRX.gov website he just announced is actually just a photograph. You literally cannot click on anything.
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TrumpRx
The lowest prescription prices in America. Coming January 2026.
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Lol James Carville says everyone will forget the shutdown by midterms but dems lose cuz ppl used the word “Latinx” in 2020? I suspect the DNC branding problem has more to do with neoliberal policies Carville spent his life championing. We don’t need rage, we need wealth redistribution @nytimes.com
Screenshot of New York Times op ed by James Carville titled “How About a Sweeping, Aggressive, Unvarnished Platform of Pure Economic Rage” accompanied by an illustration of Carville
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
There’s a unit of the IDF tasked with linking journalists they murder to Hamas. This will surprise no one: they regularly make shit up. These are then reported by many Western media outlets as fact. www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
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Israeli army unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas
Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian r...
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I just wish #SCOTUS would do this with more children's lit... "The young reader is guided to feel distressed at Sam-I-Am's insistence on eating the green eggs & ham, and then to celebrate when the meal becomes desirable in numerous locations including box, train, and in the presence of a goat."
Screenshot of Supreme Court opinion excerpt that reads "For example, the book Prince & Knight clearly conveys the message that same-sex marriage should be accepted by all as a cause for celebration. The young reader is guided to feel distressed at the prince's failure to find a princess, and then to celebrate when the prince meets his male partner. See id., at 397a-401a, 419a-423a. The book relates
that "on the two men's wedding day, the air filled with cheer and laughter, for the prince and his shining knight would live happily ever after." Id., at 424a. Those celebrating the same-sex wedding are not just family members and close friends, but the entire kingdom. For young children, to whom this and the other storybooks are targeted, such celebration is liable to be processed as having moral connotations. If this same-sex marriage makes everyone happy and leads to joyous celebration by all, doesn't that mean it is in
every respect a good thing?"
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Pedro Rios @pedroconsafos.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Shameful. This is Border Patrol taking their tactics to the interior. A rogue agency for over 100 years, sees no problem with putting babies in harm’s way. If only Republicans AND Democrats hadn’t funded them for decades. Now they have free reign.
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This hit piece on @chasestrangio.bsky.social is offensive and inaccurate, but it’s also totally ridiculous. If a trans person was struck by lightning, @nytimes.com would give @nickconfessore.bsky.social 2000 words to explain how trans activists had bet against electricity and lost. #scotus
Screenshot of New York Times article on Skrmetti SCOTUS decision that reads “How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost
The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.

By Nicholas Confessore”
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American Friends Service Committee @afsc-org.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
NO WAR ON IRAN! The U.S. and the international community must make every effort to stop Israel’s violence and expansionist agenda in the region.
Red heading that reads: No war with Iran! And white text that reads: The U.S. and the international community must make every effort to stop Israel’s violence and expansionist agenda in the region. Early this morning, Israel launched airstrikes against Iran, targeting locations across the country. Israel’s unilateral attack represents a significant escalation, threatening regional and global security. In the last week alone, Israel has continued its genocidal campaign in Gaza, bombed Yemen and Syria, and relentlessly attacked Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire agreement.
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American Friends Service Committee @afsc-org.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Currently, 9,900 Palestinians are imprisoned by the Israeli occupation under the authority of the Israeli Prison Service. Including: 400 children 27 women 3,500 people held under administrative detention All without charge or trial. #PalestinianPrisonersDay
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
And call your members of Congress here (script included): afsc.org/action/tell-... Free Jeanette and #FreeThemAll
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Tell Congress: Stop the unlawful deportation of Jeanette Vizguerra
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Jeanette spoke by phone to supporters last night, saying: "I want you to know I’m not going to surrender. I’m going to keep fighting. Even if they remove me, I’m going to continue doing binational work. They are not going to silence my voice." Sign the petition here: secure.afsc.org/a/freejeanette
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Sign the Petition to Free Jeanette Vizguerra
Ms. Vizguerra has led her fight against deportation since 2009. ICE detained the community leader, mother and grandmother without warning on March 17, 2025. Her attorneys have raised concerns about s...
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
URGENT ACTION NEEDED! On Monday ICE detained activist and mother Jeanette Vizguerra, who is now being held at a for-profit immigration jail in CO. The Trump admin appears to be systematically targeting activists: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u... @afsc-org.bsky.social #GiftLink .
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‘We Finally Got You.’ Immigrant-Rights Advocate Arrested in Colorado.
Jeanette Vizguerra, who made national news evading deportation in a church basement, is the latest activist to be taken into custody by federal immigration agents.
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American Friends Service Committee @afsc-org.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
In the early hours of March 18, 2025, Israel began conducting extensive airstrikes across Gaza. More than 400 Palestinians have already been killed, including many children.
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Israel is conducting airstrikes across Gaza. 34+ ppl already killed. This comes after Israel refused to honor terms of #ceasefire deal, refused negotiations, and blocked all food & aid. This is a genocide. The US is paying for it. #ArmsEmbargoNow #FreePalestine www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Israel launches wave of air strikes across Gaza Strip
Israel says it has conducted extensive air attacks on Hamas targets in Gaza, the largest since the ceasefire began.
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American Friends Service Committee @afsc-org.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Rather than escalating violence and destruction, risking regional escalation, the Trump Admin. should be putting pressure on Israel to uphold the ceasefire deal. This includes allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza and returning to the negotiating table for a permanent ceasefire.
Black graphic with AFSC logo and white and red text that reads: Stop bombing Yemen
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LAYNE @overton-windshield.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We don’t need a rearranging of the deck chairs on the Pentagon’s titanic budget. We need fundamental change. Check out our latest op ed in @commondreams: www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum... @afsc-org.bsky.social
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Trump Walks Back Call to Cut Military Spending—Not Surprising, But a Huge Mistake | Common Dreams
We don’t need a rearranging of the deck chairs on the Pentagon’s titanic budget. We need fundamental change.
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