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@qglpolicywonk.bsky.social
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🌈Passionate advocate. Loves working with smarty pants folks to create innovative solutions to seemingly intractable challenges. LGBTQ, health (HIV/cancer) enviro bi-national with 🇨🇦 policy wonk. Loves elevating 🎶 & women’s sports ball.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h
Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12h
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
#Trump #Racism ##CentralParkFive "Of course I hate these people. And let's all hate these people, because maybe hate is what we need if we're going to get something done"
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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 8h
This part 👇 And Dan truly adore you !
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Kirsten MacI- 🧸 @kirstensaidwhat.bsky.social · 13h
7 years ago SNL fired Shane Gillis before he actually started based on his offensive posts on social media so I guess my question is why would you bring that person back to host your show? He’s just gonna continue to be rude hurtful and also… not funny?
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 14h
Dan Levy doing what more men should do -- calling out Shane Gillis's misogyny. This is the top story on Variety right now, alongside a report on Russell Brand's rape trial beginning. In case we're still wondering why women are angry variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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Dan Levy Calls Out Shane Gillis’ ‘SNL’ Monologue and Says ‘More Men Need to Be Standing Up’: ‘Speechless That Something Like That Can Exist on Live National Television’
"Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy is calling out Shane Gillis' "Saturday Night Live" monologue, saying that "more men need to be standing up."
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 12h
We need more men like Dan Levy and fewer men like Shane Gillis. Stop being complacent. Stand up and call this shit out when it happens. www.instagram.com/p/DeYSYNXMcbH/
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 15h
Shocking abuse of power from a fascist regime flailing in the lead up to an electoral wipeout. Accountability can't come soon enough.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 14h
This is outrageous, despotic shit and everyone who played a role in it should lose their place in polite society. Show us the warrant. Who asked for it? What did they claim? Have there been grand jury proceedings? Who was in charge? And what judge, if any, signed off on the search warrant?
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 8h
Judge Tears Into Trump Admin. for Cutting Down D.C. Trees: ‘Beyond Upset and Furious’ www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Judge Tears Into Trump Admin. for Cutting Down D.C. Trees: 'Beyond Upset and Furious'
Judge Ana C. Reyes tore into Donald Trump's administration on Monday for cutting down hundreds of trees in Washington, D.C.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 8h
Prison Sentences not Essays! #IAmJaneDoe
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
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forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.
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🌼Peace2Day🌼 @peace2day.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt imagine the sky & world we'd illuminate together!
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Glowing Candles in the Dark
ALT: Glowing Candles in the Dark
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Important @joycewhitevance.bsky.social post. On first principles, Trump's actions here violate the textually guaranteed "freedom of speech, or of the press." joycevance.substack.com/p/can-the-sh...
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Can the Sherman Act Be Used To Silence the Press?
Apparently, Trump’s DOJ thinks so.
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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I've VOTED 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈 Go vote & urge friends & family to vote!!! @glaad.bsky.social #LGBTQ #VOTE
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Vote with Pride
ALT: Vote with Pride
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Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I was so glad to be back at my alma mater yesterday to make sure all Illinois students are registered and get out to VOTE! You can register and vote in-person all the way through Election Day on November 3rd. Head to ildems.com/vote and make your plan today!
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Great Replacement Theory "contends that the white population in Europe is being replaced by migrants from Muslim countries," and is "dismissed by the vast majority of scholars, and is usually described as a paranoid fantasy popular among white supremacists." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Fault = RFK And states have to deal with fall out & there are experts at CDC NY state is doing the right thing to protect communities NY ~ 100 cases since mid-July, declared a state of emergency Monday. Penn: 1,000+ cases since April, waited to request CDC help. No emergency declaration.
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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Believe survivors! No more!! Fight back
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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Please listen. I know people who have been physically threatened & whose friends & colleagues have been killed. Please don't repost ai slop & stand up when people talk about violence,hate & spread misinformation Living Under Threat of Political Violence www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
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Video: Living Under Threat of Political Violence
Our reporter Nick Corasaniti interviewed elected officials from across the political spectrum on what it’s like to live and work with threats of political violence.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
23 days until we vote to end this nightmare.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"The election for Michigan’s next U.S. Senator ... may well decide which party has a majority in the Senate. And control of the Senate will determine the direction of our courts." David Jaffe and me in the Detroit Free Press today. www.freep.com/story/opinio...
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Michigan’s U.S. Senate race will decide the Supreme Court's future | Opinion
Control of the U.S. Senate means control of judicial confirmations. Michigan could decide both.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My latest piece on Substack about why the kids aren’t alright: katiephang.substack.com/p/let-them-e...
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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I've been driving all meeting with community members over the Great Lakes from the UP to the Ypsilanti. We can win do this. People are pissed. Our job, right now, is to convert anger into votes. Please work to get out the vote, work with your community. Let's go friends VOTE
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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Say it louder for the folks in back! ‼️‼️👇👇‼️‼️ VOTE
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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Go get it! & congrats
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Along Came Poly-4-The-W @alongcamepoly4thew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Were proud to have a W team whose coach & All Star have made clear that Ballhalla welcomes trans people. And our space would very literally not exist without the investment & support of some incredible trans people. Transphobia has no home in Ballihalla & has no place at Rikki's." Rikki's Bar Sf 💜
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
New developments on a Saturday night: Reports Trump’s DOJ will try to use the Sherman Antitrust Act to intimidate the free press. joycevance.substack.com/p/can-the-sh...
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Can the Sherman Act Be Used To Silence the Press?
Apparently, Trump’s DOJ thinks so.
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Along Came Poly-4-The-W @alongcamepoly4thew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Rikkis bar sf says Transphobia IS NOT WELCOME Last night we had an incident where some ppl wearing transphobic shirts came into Rikki's looking for confrontation. While we hesitate to give these ppl more attn, we want to make it clear that trans ppl belong @ Rikki's & trans ppl belong in sports 🏳️‍⚧️🤝💕
Last night we unfortunately had an incident where some people wearing transphobic shirts came into Rikki's looking for a confrontation.
While we hesitate to give these people more attention, we want to make it clear that trans people belong at Rikki's and trans people belong in sports.
Were proud to have a W team whose coach and All Star have made clear that Ballhalla welcomes trans people. And our space would very literally not exist without the investment and support of some incredible trans people. Transphobia has no home in Ballihalla and has no place at Rikki's.
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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Facts !
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Awful human!!
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
BREAKING: In responding to one of two lawsuits challenging the legality of the Trump-praising DHS propaganda ads, DOJ tonight does not defend the ads on the merits — instead arguing that the ads are set to end on Sunday, so there will be no irreparable harm. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
Plaintiffs' motion should be denied because the alleged improper final agency action of which they are complaining "run[ning] partisan political ads, funded by U.S. taxpayers," Plaintiffs' Brief in Support of Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Section 705 Stay (Pls. Br.") (ECF No. 26) at 1-will not continue past tomorrow, the date on which briefing on their motion for a TRO will close. As such, Plaintiffs cannot demonstrate that a TRO is necessary to prevent imminent irreparable harm to them from Defendants' future conduct.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Here are all the ways Trump and Republicans have made your life expensive again.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026
NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...
United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the U.S.
Department of War announced that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government:
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.
"I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/10/2026
The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The frat isn't concerned that a women was raped at their house Or do anythingto stop future SA Instead crisis media & legal teams pulled in ‘What’s the Plan?’ Inside the Crisis Response at the Chi Phi House at Cornell www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/n...
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How Cornell University Chi Phi Fraternity Members Responded After Rape Accusation
Records reveal how fraternity members responded when a fellow student accused them of sexual assault.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Don't give in. Instead, get out the vote. ⬇️ www.inequalitymediacivicaction.org/…
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GOTV — Inequality Media Civic Action
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
MAN STRUCK BY ICE VEHICLE IN HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, SUFFERS BROKEN LEG A man was hospitalized with a broken leg Saturday morning after being struck by a vehicle driven by an ICE goon during an enforcement operation on Clay Road in northwest Harris County around 7:20 a.m.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 09/10/2026
Jane Doe’s 2024 report never received the caliber of care it should have. That process has only belatedly begun to happen now. We owe it to her, and the accused, to let that process play out. A former district attorney goes deeper:
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No, You Don’t Know That Jane Doe ‘Changed Her Story.’ No One Does.
We do know that Jane Doe’s 2024 report never received the caliber of care it deserved.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
who ever did it can jump in a cold lake. Thank you for being you ❤️🏀
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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is fantastic. Can't wait to see how this project grows. Will be wondering P Town this month thinking about all the hidden stories you will be uncovering.
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Up this AM getting ready for my panel but also reviewing the Black history pamphlets and New England heritage maps that were generously given to me by a white community member in Provincetown who has dedicated years to memorializing histories of people of color in the region.. #BlackProvincetown
Maps and pamphlets
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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is why I love women's sports! Thanks @jcubedhax.bsky.social 💜
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 09/10/2026
“Arkansas leads the nation in farm bankruptcies and farmer suicides right now.” Watch Democratic U.S. Senate candidate @hallieshoffner.bsky.social's interview on The Tea with April Ryan about what's at stake ahead of the midterms: www.contrariannews.org/p/the-tea-ft...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights
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Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA
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