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Rejin

@rejinl.bsky.social
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Visual artist. Hyphenated American 🇭🇹 Header image is an installation of cast paper sculptures of my late father's tools. she/her rejinleys.com www.artsy.net/artist/rejin-leys

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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scenes from a dementiacracy 🤪
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tariffs are Republican income??? 🤔
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's probably a blessing they didn't publish photos of the damaged paintings, because I remember Sinema's weird taste in clothing & earrings.
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Party of family values. Tell us again why pronouns are bad? 🤦🏽‍♀️
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New from Henry Holt - a kids' book on Toussaint Louverture, by Jay Leslie with illustrations from Rocky Cotard! #HaitianSky #BookSky 🗃️ bookshop.org/p/books/tous...
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Toussaint!: Hero of the Haitian Revolution
This vibrant and compelling picture book biography tells the story of Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian hero who led his people to freedom.Ayiti, the Pearl of the Antilles, was once a pristine paradis...
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The trump regime is now equating pregnancy with disease 🤦🏽‍♀️
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This does nothing to deny citizenship to people legally entitled to it. It only punishes Americans by denying them the ability to travel.
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Haiti doesn't manufacture guns, so where are these weapons coming from? That's right. The same country that's sending people there to be terrorized or killed. The US govt is truly depraved.
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
US deports dozens to Haiti, while gangs armed with US weapons terrorize the country www.africanews.com/2026/08/28/u...
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U.S. deports dozens to Haiti as migrants arrive in unfamiliar country | Africanews
It is the second U.S. deportation flight to Haiti since Temporary Protected Status was ended for some 350,000 Haitians living in the United States.
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Okay @okaycondition.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This makes me think of courtroom dramas where the obviously guilty defendant demands to be put on the stand to "clear some things up" against all advice from their lawyer lmao
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Haitian Bridge Alliance @haitianbridge.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
To our community: be very cautious. With the end of TPS, even driving with a legal driver's license is dangerous right now. ⁠ ⁠ ☎️Please call our hotline if you know of anyone who has been taken by ICE: +1 619-693-8708⁠ or send an email to: info@haitianbridge.org⁠
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here's an article from back in May when a third person died at Rikers this year. Today that number is up to 4 (or 5? not including additional deaths of people in DOC custody) but some dumbass online is arguing that I need to give the mayor a break. davisvanguard.org/2026/05/rike...
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Rikers Island Records Third In-Custody Death, Escalating Systemic Concerns - Davis Vanguard
The death of 41-year-old Rajpattie Ramkellawan on May 18, 2026, at the Rose M. Singer Center jail on Rikers Island, marks the third fatality within the facility this year, thereby intensifying scrutin...
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
How many more deaths will be "investigated" before life threatening conditions at Rikers are treated as a true emergency? If this kept happening at a school, that site would be shut down completely.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 24/08/2026
The bodies of nearly 300 free Black people buried during the 1800s lie under the asphalt in East Elmhurst, Queens. The lot is used by an NYPD towing contractor. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/24/n...
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They Paved a Historic Black Burial Ground. Now It’s a Lot for Abandoned Cars.
The bodies of nearly 300 free Black people buried during the 1800s lie under the asphalt in East Elmhurst, Queens. The lot is used by an NYPD towing contractor.
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Are we all just moving on from this?
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Wallach Art Gallery @wallachartgallery.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Janet Oliva Henry has three works currently on view in the Wallach Art Gallery exhibition "Children's Art Carnival in Harlem: The Making of Contemporary Artists" through September 13, 2026.
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Update: Schiff, Rosen, Kaine & Warner signed onto S.4814 to #ExtendTPSForHaitians! But these Senate Dems STILL haven't. Please CALL if they're yours! Baldwin (WI) Hassan & Shaheen (NH) Heinrich (NM) Kelly & Gallego (AZ) Klobuchar (MN) Fetterman Peters & Slotkin (MI) Murphy (CT) & Ossoff (!)
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Is this Melanie's "redacted Epstein files" Halloween costume?
Screenshot of a trump post:
"Two very different America's"
Side by side photos show trump in a tux with a facial expression that seems to indicate he is pooping his diaper, with his wife wearing a white dress with black bands like redaction marks on a classified document. The other photo is of Abdulrahman El-Sayed and his wife, sitting close together in a booth at a diner, smiling at the camera and looking like normal people.
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trump is so opposed to birthright citizenship, but seems to not understand how birth tourism works. How is he so stupid? 🤦🏽‍♀️
Post by @Acyn (on X)
Q: How many individuals take advantage of birth tourism?
Trump: I'll tell you right now, hundreds of thousands. You have one man came in with a family had said he had 56 children. Another one came in - they said they had 98 children.
Photo below is of trump, sitting behind a desk with his face looking extremely bloated and his left hand covering the back of his right hand. Someone in a dark suit stands behind him, their hand curled into a fist.
Post dated 8/6/26
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
So... newborn babies who are members of foreign terrorist organizations or who lobby for foreign governments will not be eligible for birthright citizenship?
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Why do people use quote posting to have public squabbles with their followers? I've unfollowed some otherwise insightful people who do this almost daily 🤦🏽‍♀️
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Haitian Bridge Alliance @haitianbridge.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Judge Reyes has issued her conforming order, officially ending Temporary Protected Status for Haiti. As of August 5, 2026, TPS protections for Haitian nationals are no longer in effect.
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"the Democrats want to turn them into Democrat voters" 🤦🏽‍♀️ Do Republicans think Ds are so powerful they're able to control how people vote?
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Learned last week just how extensive the NYPD surveillance network is in my neighborhood, and probably the whole city. Ban the Scan banthescan.amnesty.org/decode/index...
banthescan.amnesty.org
Inside the NYPD’s Surveillance Machine
Your face is being tracked. Find out where. Help ban the scan.
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Based on recent experience serving on a grand jury, "prosecutors followed up" by asking for the evidence after getting an indictment, is ass backwards. (Also, what other bogus cases did that grand jury hear? I hope innocent people aren't going through trials because of them.)
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Trump's delusions have been humored for so long that he actually thinks anyone at all should want to hear his opinion about the reflecting pool damage. But Juicebox can't present his feelings to a judge! 😁
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Which Senate Dems STILL haven't signed onto S.4814 to #ExtendTPS #ProtectHaitians? Schiff (CA) Baldwin (WI) Hassan & Shaheen (NH) Heinrich (NM) Kaine & Warner (VA) Kelly & Gallego (AZ) Klobuchar (MN) Fetterman Peters & Slotkin (MI) Rosen (NV) Murphy (CT) & Ossoff (!) HAITIANS NEED US - ☎️✊
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Urgent 🧵. Our neighbors who have had TPS protection and lived here for decades could become become a subject to mass deportations in the next week if nothing is done. Instructions here for calling your senator and urging them to cosponsor & pass S.4814.
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If true, its absolutely treasonous for these "sources" to allow trump to press the nuclear button instead of sounding the alarm and calling for the 25th amendment. www.alternet.org/trump-mental...
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Sources warn they 'don’t know what to do' as Trump's mind withers
Daily Mail White House columnist Andrew Neil says he is in direct talks with people working around President Donald Trump and they fear they are watching his mind wither away as international forces t...
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David Jekel @davidjekel.myatproto.social · 22/07/2026
The State Department's anti-Cuba report specifically vilifies the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization and the organizations they help support, including Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees: haitianrefugees.org/about/
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About HWHR
Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees (HWHR) was founded in 1992 to respond to the human needs of Haitian refugees and immigrants in the U.S. fleeing persecution. Based in Flatbush, Brooklyn and led b…
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My sister worked at this branch!
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🤬🤬 In a just world, those who spread these libels about Haitians would never know a moment's peace.
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 05/07/2026
The Fifth of July is/was the tradition of recognizing the State of New York's legal abolition of slavery* in 1827. I support Tunisia Morrison's call to create a bicentennial commission because it has the potential to become a day of serious political education. www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/05/n...
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N.Y.’s 200th anniversary of emancipation
Imagine living with the knowledge that your freedom had already been scheduled. On March 31, 1817, New York lawmakers passed legislation declaring that every person still legally enslaved in the stat...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/07/2026
Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation's independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.
What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city's waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.
Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.
Happy Fourth of July, New York City.
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
That's my mayor 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If they are *actually *far left & this isn't pure R fear mongering, this is great news!
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Tell your Senators to co-sponsor S. 4814 to extend TPS for Haitians and protect 350,000 hard-working immigrants from mass deportation!! secure.faithinactioninternational.org/a/haititps?_...
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Senators: Protect Haitian Families
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Now they're trying to figure out how to exclude pregnant tourists, but how soon before racist ghoul Stephen Miller and othe regime henchmen propose bringing back the Page Act to keep non white immigrants from having families? www.history.com/articles/chi...
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Before the Chinese Exclusion Act, This Anti-Immigrant Law Targeted Asian Women | HISTORY
Enacted seven years before the Chinese Exclusion Act, the 1875 Page Act was one of the earliest pieces of federal leg...
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Republicans are the party of invasive gender exams for underage athletes and pregnancy tests for tourists.
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Megan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I did not realize there was anything we could do! Call your senators to get them to protect our Haitian neighbors! I am calling and leaving messages tomorrow and then will call Monday.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
JD Vance made up a horrific and racist lie about a group of people, and now those people will be deported because the Supreme Court refuses to acknowledge, let along regard as disqualifying, the clear racial bias of this administration.
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Chilling that the WH Office of Faith made "recommendations" that trump then says "we're going to have to get people to adhere to those *regulations.*"
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Sounds like a job for @claireforny.bsky.social!
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Joel Steven Kuszai @anonstuniva.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I updated the list of NYS Klan Units 1921-1946 and included information I have about meeting locations, mostly in Queens and Long Island open.substack.com/pub/anonstun...
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Do white Americans realize that they also have birthright citizenship? You’re American because of where you were born, not because of your blood or genes or because you eat hamburgers or whatever.
Screenshot of a post (user name redacted) that says “Seriously, answer me why a Chinese kid born to some birth tourist mom is just as American as me?” This is a [racist] reply to a post about today’s expected SCOTUS decision about birthright citizenship.
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Jfc, he's added even more gewgaws. His temu budget must be higher than the gdp of the small nations he's threatening to invade.
Photo of a 2025 gathering in the Oval Office, where there are some pieces of flair on the fireplace and wall, but not the overwhelming amount we see in the boosted video
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
(Some) Dominicans are so afraid of Haitians, they can't stop themselves from making up ridiculous conspiracy theories about us 🤪
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
And then the next generation of revolutionaries will nationalize their property all over again and they'll be like "I did not see that coming" 🤪
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 20/06/2026
Good morning, friends! Today's the 8th day of Early Voting. Counting today, we've just 4 days left to shift the balance of statewide power in New York. If we win most of these primaries, the Left will be able to contest for universal health care, child care, housing—and force Hochul to #TaxTheRich.
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Rejin @rejinl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Compelling and very timely film about a student uprising in 1960s Montreal. Q & A with director Michèle Stephenson after several of the screenings. (At IFC in NYC) www.ifccenter.com/films/true-n...
Movie poster for "True North,"
June 17-23,2026
Tickets: https://www.ifccenter.com/films/true-north/
Q & A with Director Michele Stephenson (17th, 18th, 23rd) 
(B&w photo shows a person in a grey (?) coat and black gloves being escorted by 2 uniformed cops)
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