Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 1hGreene-Placentia didn’t want to report what happened because she was "embarrassed" and just wanted to "forget it happened." But she often talks about fighting for Arizonans, “and I didn’t feel like I could keep saying that if I weren’t also fighting for women that are victims of sexual assault." 052
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati... 261571925
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Enlistment should mean automatic citizenship. Straight up. 050
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Lincón’s wounds included a damaged left vertebral artery which... put him at risk for a stroke. That was not considered... serious enough to be admitted [to a major U.S. military facility in Germany.] Instead he was sent to... an Army barracks and told to schedule outpatient appointments." 1125
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager 213103551644
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich. 21523655
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yes, kids, there was a time when high-ranking Republicans went to prison. 0113
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Night of the Living Dead." My mom loved horror movies, she assumed I would too. I was 6. 290
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is why a lot of people weren't mad at Will Smith. 1277
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comA Reckoning in SpringfieldA truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become. 37053121827
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Disbarment is the floor not the ceiling when the time comes to deal with this one. 1122
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026No. That's exactly why Patel was chosen and still has a job. 061
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026That is the smile of a man who won't back down. 1121
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026@anntelnaes.bsky.social (archives 11/18/25) 8290136
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m very glad to see this news. “Gov. Kathy Hochul has named Letitia James, the New York State attorney general, to serve as special prosecutor to investigate a woman’s allegation that she was raped on Cornell University’s campus in October 2024.”nytimes.comHochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell CaseGov. Kathy Hochul appointed the New York State attorney general to investigate allegations by a former Cornell University student that several men sexually assaulted her. 1459
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I was in Nova Scotia a few months ago, and this is absolutely true. This isn't a misunderstanding. It's a rupture, and they are not going to get over this anytime soon. (I should add that everyone I met was incredibly sympathetic.) 080
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Too many Americans have willingly refused to understand that — which is why we're in this very dire situation. 0131
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Swearing loudly at that stupid and intrusive AI prompt in Google Docs is my new normal. 1252
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Toss it in the same fire with "Lake America," "Gulf of America," and "Secretary of War." 0120
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026John Roberts has spent his entire career trying to kill the Voting Rights Act. Now his Republican-appointed majority is dusting off arguments once used to destroy Reconstruction to roll back the gains made during the civil rights era. Our latest cover story: tinyurl.com/3m6nawpj 815566
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Right. Because as much as he needs them, he despises them. 110
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Besides his horrible tenure as Mayor, let's not overlook the 2010 election debacle Rahm helped engineer He did everything he could to shit on Dem base during those years he was Obama's chief of staff Takes a special skill to set the tone and agenda that went from 2008 landslide to 2010 wipeout 56722
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴 52272332591
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈Peter Abraham @peteabeglobe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Globe Spotlight team uncovers the story behind a New Jersey man buying up nursing homes in Massachusetts and cutting services and staffing, leaving the patients to suffer: apps.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/spot...apps.bostonglobe.comOutside chains like RegalCare transformed Mass. nursing homes. Quality fell.RegalCare and other nursing home chains have rapidly expanded in Massachusetts. The Globe Spotlight Team found widespread problems and little state intervention. 34115
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My life is what's possible when government works: I grew up on SNAP, in public housing and studied at Boston Public Schools. So, when I sued Trump for weaponizing SNAP benefits against our immigrant community, it was personal. You deserve government that delivers for everyone without discrimination. 36121
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss. 201459207
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As of April, "the Brookings Institution put the total number of affected children at about 205,000 — 71% of whom are US citizens. Most of those cases involve the loss of one parent... but researchers believe that [in] more than 35,000 of the cases... a child has been left with no parent at all." 0107
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Going forward, I will use “vortex of skittishness” to describe a whole host of things not quite working out as they should. 190
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When I heard the news, I instantly thought about Sparrow's battles with Lord Melody, the precursor of rap battles. Legendary.youtube.comSparrow & Melody - Picong DuelYouTube video by IsDePanInMe 0279
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈Miles Halpine @mileshalpine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Wells’s death has stirred a past that never feels like the past." From @rygraham.bsky.social in @globeopinion.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/27/o...bostonglobe.comNolan Wells has been dead for two months. No one knows yet how he died. - The Boston GlobeA young Black man, who partied with white friends, died in July. A grand jury, citing a lack of evidence, declined to file charges. 072
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Note to men: If your first reaction to hearing about the gang rape of a woman by seven men at Cornell in 2024 is to say, "Not all men," or some such stupidity, then you're telling everyone — especially women — that you are part of the problem. 0112
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...calendar.eji.orgSep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than IntegrateLearn more about our history of racial injustice 251141439
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What gets me is if Obama had done to Fox what Trump has done to CNN, MSNOW, and Politico, the right never would have shut up about it. But, as usual, in lieu of facts, they're just making stuff up — with an assist from Jake Tapper. 080
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Thank you from the kid who got rejected for Pre-K because I wouldn't turn 4 in time for the first day of school. 060
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Stanford used "AI" to remove a Latino student from a photo and replace him with an "AI-generated" Black woman. The two other students in the photo were made thinner. There are so many aspects of what happened that are egregious. sfstandard.com/2026/09/22/s...sfstandard.comStanford University replaced a Latino man with an AI-generated Black woman in a photoUniversity slammed for AI-generated race swap in photo in back-to-school banner. 415256
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and his government has committed genocide in Gaza. The United States should stop all military assistance to Israel. Saying this is not antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.) 28984882250
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/09/2026Breaking news: The Pentagon’s public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased by 37 without explanation from the Defense Department. That includes 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines, according to the Pentagon’s database.washingtonpost.comPentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran warWith the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows. 1313981
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026More needs to be said about this nation’s commander in chief fawning over and entertaining in the White House a foreign leader who is sending weapons to a country currently at war against the US. 0168
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈Daryle Lamont Jenkins @dlj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026According to a AP poll, Mayor Mamdani is viewed more favorably by American Jews than Netanyahu. 1931273
Reposted by Renée Graham 🏳️🌈The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026Breaking News: A sheriff in California was ordered by the state Supreme Court to return about 650,000 ballots to election officials after he confiscated them for an investigation into voter fraud that state officials said had no basis in fact. nyti.ms/4hejTBu 49345113
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The Trump administration is defying a court order. Again. 141
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What starts with nonwhite immigrants won't end there. 013537
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In an Oct. 2024 special report, The Economist called the American economy "The envy of the world," and said that it "has left other rich countries in the dust. Expect that to continue." Trump has driven that economy into a ditch. 086