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I really appreciate that Coates as a speaker guides an audience through the process of moral reasoning aloud. I think interviewers and pundits want to skip that step and he just will not. I think it is a really important tool of showing your work, for lack of better words, for your convictions.

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 11h

I'll just note: if any enterprising journalists are interested in looking into where 287(g) agencies spend these $100K vehicle grants, what they're actually buying with the 'equipment' expenses, etc., I expect you might find some interesting local stories.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 8h

Jamie Jimenez "told The New York Times in an interview on Wednesday that her family was horrified to see her deceased father depicted as a living fugitive, his face plastered on a Department of Homeland Security “wanted” bulletin that was broadcast on local newscasts"

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 8h

Agnes Denes is a pioneer in ecological art. In 1982, she planted a 2-acre wheat field in lower Manhattan to protest global warming and economic inequality.

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Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 8h

Breaking: An ICE operation in Houston left a Mexican man struck and injured by an S.U.V., but a bulletin of the target shows a man who died in 2017, his daughter told us. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...

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ICE Agents Who Rammed a Worker in Houston Were Chasing a Dead Man, Family Says (Gift Article)

An ICE operation in Houston left a Mexican man struck and injured by an S.U.V., but a bulletin of the target shows a man who died in 2017, his daughter said.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9h

Healthcare has been an economic bright spot, just about the only sector that's both growing and a net plus in jobs. Trump and the GOP Congress scheduled most of their healthcare cuts for 2027, so they'd be after the midterms. That will add to the country's economic problems next year. 2028 too.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12h

This article quotes a sociology professor, a lawyer, and an architect who reject the notion that housing prices are set by supply and demand and do not believe that building more homes reduces rents. It is the housing policy equivalent of platforming climate change deniers.

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Would building housing reduce poverty in California? Sacramento-area experts split

A recent study argued that building housing could lower state’s poverty rate, currently the second-highest in the U.S. behind Louisiana.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10h

As ICE is terrorizing California’s Central Valley, one gas station owner has been preparing and delivering food directly to his farmworker customers. "For Mohammed, delivering meals is one way to show farmworkers they have not been forgotten.” kmph.com/news/local/c...

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Cutler gas station owner delivers meals to farmworkers amid immigration enforcement fears

As fears surrounding immigration enforcement grow across the Central Valley, one local business owner is finding a way to support farmworkers, one meal at a tim

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Joe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 10h

Metro September 2026 daily ridership exceeded one million for the first time since So Cal ICE raids intensified in June 2025.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 10h

House Dems account still talking reform when ICE is shooting at kids in cars, arresting them, & exiling them to be further abused. ABOLISH ABOLISH ABOLISH. Don’t give any money to a candidate or elected who doesn’t stand for a reasonable response to terror. ABOLISH ICE.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: DOJ sues California, as signaled earlier this week, over allegations of "likely noncitizens" getting sent vote-by-mail ballots. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
No. 2:26-cv-12025
v.
COMPLAINE FOR DECLARATORY ACTION SEEKING STATEWIDE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, SHIRLEY N.
RELIEF
Calfor scerary of care, and DERAN
C. LOGAN, in his official capacity as the Recorder/Cous Ay Celes Registrar-Defendants.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

One key difference between Bass & Raman that isn't getting the play it deserves was present in the debate last night: Data transparency & its importance to local government. During my last stint at the city, I saw the differences between the two firsthand. It is also why I'm voting for Raman.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

i think it is fun when people write things that are just totally in tension with easily observable reality. like, this is “charlie brown had hoes” levels of nonsense: “in his first term Trump largely respected the cultural consensus of the Obama years.” www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

compactmag.com

How ‘Woke 1’ Radicalized the GOP

On May 30, 2020, five days after the death of George Floyd, the head of a prominent DC-area think tank issued a stentorian condemnation of the killing and the bigotry she said had enabled it.

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 13h

In the LA sheriff’s race you have incumbent Robert Luna and former sheriff Alex Villanueva who is on the county’s “no rehire” list for violating the county’s harassment policies. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/e...

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Ex-Sheriff Alex Villanueva loses suits over 'no-rehire' listing

The former lawman allege that the county's oversight panel investigated him without informing him or giving him a chance to respond.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 13h

Somebody writing headlines at the LA Times is a Flanders freak.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 13h

The org has a long and impactful history of providing civil legal services in the areas of employment and labor, housing, education, rural health, and leadership development. I'm looking forward to doing my part to boosting the staff's important work. You should do your part by donating.

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Home page | California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 13h

CRLA has recently spoken up on the threatened infiltration of AI in California courts, and the dangers it presents to indigent communities in rural areas of the state. crla.org/articles/civ...

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Civil Rights Advocates Announce Press Conference to Spotlight CA Judicial Council’s Pursuit of High-Risk AI Technology for State Courts | California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 13h

I grew up in Fresno, CA, and I saw first hand how imbalanced power is in communities where property reigns & legal services are often out for reach for those who would most benefit from them.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 13h

Just found out that come January 2027, I'll be joining the Board of Directors for California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. The nonprofit provides free legal services to rural communities throughout CA. Feels extra sweet given that my grandfather worked as a bracero in areas the org supports.

crla.org

About CRLA | California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump, after bipartisan backlash, says Pentagon won't livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

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A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew

BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I heard rumors of this and could not confirm it. But this is big. Green Berets and MARSOC are on the ground and Marines are at sea but this is a big move to use conventional forces

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Fidel Martinez @fidel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Good on the dodgers for finally deciding to not go to the White House in 2028.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Nope! Got on the train at Computech.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Soon to be 42, come January. 🫡

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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

sometimes you turn 40 and decide you just need to sue people

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

For sure! And I appreciate it and think you’re right.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Yes - Alvaro Huerta, who is the director of litigation @ the Immigrant Defenders Law Center. Nobody is perfect, but he walks that line.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I have worked with them! But this makes me feel like I should clarify: I am not talking about attorney spaces where attorneys are going back & forth on decision making. I was referring to movement spaces where it is important to cede space to non-attorney folk with lived experiences + expertise.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

You got this speech from me before you decided on law school hahaha And I am happy you didn't listen to me!

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I have gotten yelled at so many times for saying this in spaces with attorneys. Few of them (us?) think we're part of the problem. But we dominate conversations, decisionmaking, & autopsies to such a negative extent. My legal heroes are the humble ones who keep quiet even when it hurts.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

That's a big chunk of it! The other chunk of it is who trains you in law school & who you are trained to persuade. A fair amount of my professors were folks who learned to write in segregated spaces AND we were taught to write to persuade other attorneys + judges. It's a bad recipe.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

That’s every thread tho ☹️

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is integrity. I hope she does well in her independent career, and I hope her departure makes someone corporate think. We have to do it ourselves.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 14/10/2026

Military patrolling the Columbia Heights ballot box at 6:44 pm "It's a public sidewalk" the lead soldier said when reminded of the law. Photo by self

One of a troop of three soldiers patrolling the Columbia Heights ballot box, October 14, 2026

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I don’t have any idea what the solution to the bigger problem for literature is, but it strikes me as completely outrageous that the Atlantic would level such a serious charge against an author without an iota of actual evidence. And no, a black box analysis by another AI program is not evidence.

theguardian.com

Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story

Article in Atlantic claims The Blue Fighter was artificially generated, days after it won Caine prize for African writers

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I agree - in part because I think our world would be infinitely better if less attorneys/lawyers/esquires put on airs. I went to law school (the fanciest of the schools), passed the bar, and have practiced. I think I was a much better writer/thinker BEFORE I went to law school & passed the bar.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Well, sir, it has been an uneventful week in Badger Falls, where the women are robust, the men are pink-cheeked, and the children are pink-cheeked and robust.

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actioncookbook @actioncookbook.com · 14/10/2026

finally, a Duolingo lesson relevant to my lived experience

[in Spanish]

I write very well. I have a popular blog. Do you read my blog?

No.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I spent 4 years fighting campaign finance money laundering & illegal influence peddling in Los Angeles all because of completely avoidable corruption ecosystems that all start in the same place: campaign contributions & “independent” expenditures.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We can & should regulate this out of existence. Nothing good can come from money infiltrating our democracy like this.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I think Ossoff captures something that Newsom never did: the Dem base wants you to fight but they want real shit not goofy memes and too-online riffs

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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 14/10/2026

More people DIED than were housed after the eviction of Echo Park Lake's encampment.

Excerpt from "Storaging the Homeless": "The eviction of the Echo Park Lake encampment in March 2021, by a “battle-ready” police force, and the subsequent enclosure of the
park, was a pivotal moment in Los Angeles. Then-Mayor Garcetti declared this to be “the largest housing transition of an encampment
in the history of the city” and promised that the displaced would be housed in a year. The longitudinal research conducted by the After
Echo Park Lake Research Collective, which included several of us, exposed the lie at hand. More people died than were housed and
scores more were disappeared. But the “ruse of housing,” a phrase we borrow from housing justice scholar and organizer, Carla
Orendorff, justified the displacement and became the blueprint for the spatial governance of homelessness in Los Angeles, including
Mayor Bass’s Inside Safe. While the landmark Supreme Court decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson (2024) expanded the authority of
local governments to criminalize homeless encampments, such criminalization was already well under way in Los Angeles, including
with the amendment of the city’s long-standing anti-camping ordinance, LAMC 41.18, in 2021. The Los Angeles Community Action
Network characterized that amendment as a “Jim Crow, Sundown Town, segregationist throw-back,” and the hefty 2024 report by
Human Rights Watch, “You Have to Move!” The Cruel and Ineffective Criminalization of Unhoused Persons in Los Angeles, provides
meticulous analysis of its effects."

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.

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