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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My org @immcouncil.org represents those two gay men. They had been arrested on charges of sodomy by Iranian moral police, and fled the country seeking asylum. They face the death penalty if returned, yet the Trump admin denied their asylum claims in a kangaroo court process. They are terrified.

Two Iranian men, who are gay, told their lawyer Bekah Wolf with the American Immigration Council that they were set to be deported on the Sunday flight. Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death in Iran, which executed two gay men in 2022 and is considered one of the world's most repressive countries for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
"They're terrified," Wolf told MS NOW. One of her clients "calls every 45 minutes begging me to save his life."
"We need a court of some sort to fully hear their claims before they're sent back to a country where being gay is punishable by death," said Wolf.
She said her two clients have no criminal convictions and entered the U.S. in early 2025 on asylum claims. Both were in the middle of appeals though did not have stays of removal, Wolf said.
Ultimately, Wolf said, "they did not have full hearings of their asylum claims in any meaningful way."

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Tasha Coryell @tashacoryell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

NEW: @nbcnews.com reports that an immigration judge dismissed the asylum case of Andry Hernandez, the innocent man currently imprisoned without trial in El Salvador pursuant to a deal between the Trump admin and Nayib Bukele. His lawyers argue that this is an attempt to "complete the disappearance."

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Immigration courts are dismissing cases of those sent to El Salvador, potentially cutting off their return

An immigration judge in San Diego dismissed the asylum claim of a gay makeup artist from Venezuela — one of at least 14 such dismissals to take place in recent weeks.

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SlyWag @slywag.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This hits home for me. Words that literally came out of my 17 y.o. mouth to my class counselor who suggested I major in engineering, "What's an engineer?" America First - unless we're helping the very people that would actually make America First.

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

"Furthermore, I expect the German legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them, but that they are here for the nation" Hitler, 1942 Doesn't sound much different, does it?

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 24/04/2025

City of London Corp has today issued stats showing largest increase in cycling in the Square Mile since records began. October 2024 saw 139,000 people cycling a day across 30 locations - up 50,000 from 89,000 in 2022. The increase of over 50% marks the largest jump since recording started in 1999.

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On a clear day @icanseeforever1.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

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SlyWag @slywag.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

How do we know Pope Francis was a decent person and a step forward for LGBTQ Catholics? People at our mom's Catholic Church who voted for Lauren Boebert and Donald Trump kept telling her how awful a pope he was.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Wu: If you wanted to make us safe, pass gun reforms. Stop cutting medicaid. Stop cutting cancer research. Stop cutting funds for veterans. That is what will make our city safe.

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David Whitehouse, Ph.D @davidw38.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

As soon as Google makes these changes, we need a campaign to report the names as errors.

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David Whitehouse, Ph.D @davidw38.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Remember when Google's motto was "Don't be evil"?

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Active Transportation Alliance @activetransportation.org · 21/01/2025

The Trib Editorial Board recently published an opinion piece against lowering the speed limit in Chicago. The piece skims over the lifesaving benefits of a lower speed limit and overlooks that this approach has worked in other cities. Here's our response. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/20/l...

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Letters: A 25 mph speed limit is a proven solution to lowering the risk of pedestrian deaths

The toll of speeding is tremendous. The trauma ripples into our neighborhoods.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/12/2024

Wow, I never knew he said this. Jimmy Carter was ahead of his time—a man of unmatched kindness and integrity. Truly, he was too good for us.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

6. Hegseth criticized injured veterans who receive government assistance He argued that, absent a chronic condition, accepting benefits violates "the ethos of service" because it makes veterans "dependent" on the government.

Secretary of Defense is one of the most complex and consequential positions on earth.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

4. Hegseth published a column in college that claimed having sex with an unconscious woman is not rape The piece published by Hegseth claimed that rape required both the failure to consent and "duress," and women who are passed out cannot experience "duress"

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