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queenjaneapprox

@queenjaneapprox.bsky.social

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40s, rejecting xitter. this is my sfw account for non-nsfw things. gonna be a lot of dire u.s. politics. and hopefully some queer stuff, fandom stuff, etc. i'm usually only around here intermittently✌️ || STRIKE THAT. current status: (re)posting through it

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queenjaneapprox @queenjaneapprox.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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queenjaneapprox @queenjaneapprox.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

they're holding families with children in horrible conditions and cutting them off from legal process to coerce them to agree to deportation despite valid claims to legal residence. just straight ethnic cleansing. regardless of law (for what it's worth). www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...

masthead: The Marshall Project

A mother and her 5-year-old daughter went to a Chicago laundromat this fall, expecting it to be a regular day. But as they were washing their clothes, the mother said, they were surrounded by 20 armed officers in “full riot gear” and arrested. The mother, identified in court documents as N.G.C., had been living in the United States for around two years. She said the officers detained her with her daughter at a Chicago airport, where they had no access to showers, phones or the ability to brush their teeth. “The food they gave us was not edible,” the mother said in court documents. “We didn’t eat anything for days. They didn’t even give us water to drink.”

After about two days, they were transferred to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Dilley, Texas, which N.G.C. described as a living hell. “Sometimes my daughter doesn’t want to leave our room because she is so sad and just wants to leave this prison so badly. She cries and cries about all of this. I am so worried that I barely eat,” N.G.C. said.

masthead: The Marshall Project

An analysis by The Marshall Project of Immigration and Customs Enforcement data obtained by the Deportation Data Project found that the Trump administration’s revival of family detention has swept thousands of children into ICE custody. At least 3,800 children under age 18, including 20 infants, have been booked since Trump took office.

A 1997 settlement, known as Flores, provides protections for children in immigrant detention to try and ensure their needs are met, and a judge continues to monitor the case today. A federal court has interpreted the legal agreement to mean that it is generally excessive for a child to be held with their family in custody by ICE for more than 20 days.

masthead: The Marshall Project

The Marshall Project’s analysis counted over 1,300 children who have been held in detention longer than 20 days this year. ICE told the judge overseeing the Flores settlement that it is minimizing the detention of children, writing in a report filed this month that its “primary goal is to ensure that minors are discharged from custody as quickly as possible.”

But the data shows a spike in releases from detention clustered around the 20-day benchmark, which former Department of Homeland Security staffers say indicates the government is choosing to hold families as long as possible to increase the likelihood of deporting them directly from detention. It is hard to fight deportation cases with scarce legal resources in detention, and the poor living conditions make it more likely people will leave the country voluntarily, even if they have valid legal claims to remain.

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queenjaneapprox @queenjaneapprox.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

look

Thousands of people have faced arrest after showing up for court-ordered ICE check-ins, and immigration court hearings, as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda.

The administration has effectively “de-legalized” tens of thousands of immigrants, including people who show up to immigration courts each week only to have their cases dismissed, with federal agents waiting to arrest them on the other side of the courtroom doors.

Those actions have radically expanded a pool of “undocumented” people to add to the president’s demands for mass deportations.

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queenjaneapprox @queenjaneapprox.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

lol reminds me of this post-election comment

YouTube comment that says "The S in Zohran Kwame Mamdani stands for Stopping."

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queenjaneapprox @queenjaneapprox.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

need a "don't make me tap the sign" meme for mamdani where it's tapping the campaign platform around policing

$Last spring, Tisch under former Mayor Eric Adams unleashed cops to issue criminal summonses to e-bike riders and cyclists for infractions like running red lights or riding the wrong way, while still giving regular traffic tickets to motorists for the same offenses.$

Mamdani, who kept Tisch on the job, on Monday reiterated a campaign position, telling Newsday that criminal summonses were not the way to go. But he has yet to tell the top cop to change course.

Tisch's summons spree has led to bizarre and violent arrests of cyclists and e-bike riders, and ensnared thousands of New Yorkers in the criminal justice system for violations that previously were subject to a traffic ticket they could pay online. The tactics raised particular concerns among delivery workers who rely on e-bikes, and many of whom are immigrants.

The police blitz has continued apace with new cases coming to court as recently as last week, said Peter Beadle, an attorney who recently represented two e-bike riders.

Beadle supports Mamdani's focus on improving infrastructure like the Williamsburg Bridge, but called on City Hall to ditch the crackdown, arguing that it violates New Yorkers' Constitutional rights because they're subject to harsher enforcement on a bike than in a car.

"The policy definitely should end. It’s an equal protection violation," Beadle told Streetsblog. "The clients that call me they’re afraid of their job applications, they’re afraid of immigration issues."

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queenjaneapprox @queenjaneapprox.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

nooooo 🥺

in reference to the quoted post, my 2026 word is "mortifying"

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queenjaneapprox @queenjaneapprox.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

jeez, just realized twitter is getting posts on zohran's account that they're not crossposting here 😐

An X post by Zohran Kwame Mamdani handle @ZohranKMamdani:

Last week, online conspiracy theorists wrongfully blamed Mustapha Kharbouch, a young Palestinian student at Brown University, for the horrific shooting in early December because of a photo of him wearing a Keffiyeh. In the days since, Kharbouch has faced death threats and unimaginable Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. Today, I had the privilege of speaking with Mustapha. I learned about his life as a bright-eyed scholar interested in international relations and Anthropology. He shared stories about his summer living in Sunnyside while he pursued an internship. He is considering a PhD and thinks about moving back to New York City one day if he can afford it. And I learned about his Palestinian heritage, the very heritage he was doxxed for. I told Mustapha that we would love to have him back in New York City, where — as Mayor — I will make it my job to cherish, protect, and celebrate all New Yorkers and combat Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism at every corner.

10:47 PM, Dec 23, 2025, 898.8K Views

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queenjaneapprox @queenjaneapprox.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

mulder with eyes cast down and tears on his cheeks

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queenjaneapprox @queenjaneapprox.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

when you're an ascendant socialist who's finagled a photo op with the white house fdr portrait but you can't even smile because you gotta stand next to donald trump. also, what a power move to witness