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Sonja Reitsma

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Teacher in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Mike Ludwig @mludwig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Border Patrol Unleashes Violence on Protesters Over Trump’s Border Wall Video (link in story) shows a chaotic confrontation between protesters and a specialized tactical unit that was also deployed to Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis. ~24 activists at Tierra Libre camp have been arrested.🧵
truthout.org
Border Patrol Unleashes Violence on Protesters Over Trump’s Border Wall
Activists say federal agents dragged protesters across a barbed wire and used “extreme pain compliance” tactics.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 07/10/2026
How is this okay? Multiple masked men in plain clothing shoving a woman into an unmarked white van. STOP THE KIDNAPPING.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
DELAWARE: "Nurse Monica Ryadi and her husband couldn’t wait to take their 3yo son to Disneyland... They didn’t get there. The Delco nurse has lived legally in 🇺🇸 since childhood. ICE arrested her as she took her son to Disneyland." #AbolishICE www.instagram.com/p/DeAFDW5jEW0
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 07/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Trump's EPA is moving to weaken protections against methane, a climate super pollutant that can be 80x more potent than CO2. This administration is willing to sell out the health and safety of our families and environment in order to reward their buddies in the oil and gas industry.
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Trump to propose relaxing methane rules for oil and gas industry
The Trump administration will propose to loosen restrictions that rein in methane from oil and gas production, it announced on Wednesday. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in a press r…
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 06/10/2026
This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Suncor v. Boulder, a case that could determine whether communities can hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate damages. At the heart of the fight is attribution science, which is increasingly linking fossil fuel pollution to climate harms.
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Opinion | The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared (Gift Article)
However the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the work of holding oil companies accountable for climate change has a bright future.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 02/10/2026
Republicans' 2025 Big Ugly Bill gave data centers tens of billions of dollars in tax breaks, fueling the data center boom that has raised our costs and polluted our air and water. Now they're pretending that never happened. But we remember and will hold them accountable in November. #LCVVF
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An Obscure Part Of Republicans' Tax Law Is Now Blowing Up In Their Faces
Republicans are scrambling to deal with a data center boom they cheered on not long ago.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
45 million acres of roadless national forest. Trump wants bulldozers and logging trucks on all of it. Once a road goes in, the wild is gone for good. Tell Congress to stop him: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Julia" shared this photo with us from the carrots in the Cuyama CA area. "We are paid piece rate and we only are given 4 hours of work a day. This makes it impossible to cover our expenses. The high was 97° when this photo was taken." #WeFeedYou
A carrot field where you see the Bunches of harvested carrots laid out
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 26/09/2026
"The fossil fuel industry secured an estimated $190bn in tax breaks and subsidies over the next decade after responding to Donald Trump’s pre-election call for major campaign donations." Promises made, promises kept. Meanwhile Big Oil is raking in record profits while you pay more for everything.
theguardian.com
Fossil-fuel firms in line for billions in benefits after answering Trump’s donation call
Senators’ report says taxpayers face higher bills after ‘bargain’ between president and major polluters
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the first Trump presidency. (Published July)
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These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 23/09/2026
The Trump administration has rolled back yet another bedrock Endangered Species Act protection. Under this change, unintentional killing of an endangered species will no longer be considered illegal, opening the door for corporations and developers to escape responsibility when they harm wildlife.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Trump administration is considering data center-related projects across at least 17,600 acres of public land — far more than previously reported. Reminder: 70% of Americans oppose data centers, but Trump is heavily invested in the corporations pushing AI. Always follow the money.
washingtonsun.com
Trump Is Considering More Data Centers on Public Lands Than Previously Known
The data center proposals cover at least 17,600 acres of public lands across six Western states.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You think this regime can't get any more cartoonishly evil, but then it finds a way. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is Sakariye. He’s a 22 year old asylum seeker who had work authorization. He was driving a truck for work when he was arrested in Alabama last year.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 15/09/2026
Trump's EPA is giving power plants a free pass on climate pollution, while undermining the government's authority to act. The move comes after its repeal of the endangerment finding for vehicles, which we're currently challenging in court.​
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Trump’s EPA Rolled Back the ‘Endangerment Finding.’ We’re Taking Them to Court.
The EPA revoked the finding that greenhouses gases threaten public health and welfare, then weakened emissions standards for vehicles. Now, it’s doing the same for power plants.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Robert Kraft — who's given millions to pro-Israel orgs like AIPAC — once got a $1M award from Netanyahu for helping stop people from boycotting Israel. "Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft," Netanyahu said. Now, Kraft helps kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran's tour:
Robert Kraft to Establish a Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism, BDS, Delegitimization of Israel
Jun 20, 2019 at 03:25 PM
June 20, 2019, Jerusalem - Tonight, the Laureate of the 2019 Genesis Prize Robert Kraft was honored at a gala ceremony in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Genesis Prize Foundation Chairman Stan Polovets bestowed the award on Kraft in front of an audience of 600 Israeli and international dignitaries.
The $1 million Genesis Prize, dubbed "the Jewish Nobel" by Time Magazine, honors extraordinary individuals for outstanding professional achievement, contribution to humanity, and commitment to Jewish values. Previous honorees include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; philanthropist and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; actor, producer and peace activist Michael Douglas; and "Fiddler to the world" maestro Itzhak Perlman.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said: "I am delighted to welcome Robert Kraft to the august family of Genesis Prize Laureates. This prestigious award honors Robert's generous lifelong philanthropy, his commitment to the Jewish people, and his love for Israel. It also recognizes his principled stand against anti-Semitism and efforts by our enemies to undermine the State of Israel through BDS and other similar campaigns. Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft."
Kraft previously announced he would forgo the $1 million monetary award so that the funds could be granted to initiatives combating anti-Semitism, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), and other efforts to delegitimize Israel. This is in line with the tradition established by previous Genesis Prize Laureates, who have "re-gifted" their awards to philanthropic causes they support.
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Sonja Reitsma @sonjareitsma.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What Are We Doing to Our World of Wonder? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Trying to Defang the Endangered Species Act (Gift Article)
What if 50 years from now, having destroyed the habitat for the creatures around us, we are plagued by an inconsolable loneliness?
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Sonja Reitsma @sonjareitsma.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My Health Insurance Denied My Cancer Treatment—and My Humanity. So I Emailed the CEO - Vanity Fair
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Cosáin Climate @cosaingalway.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A long-time Romanian resident of Galway, originally from Transylvania, mentioned this last week. He said Austrian logging companies are harvesting large tracts of old-growth forest. Sightings of bears have increased, because of widespread habitat destruction. www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
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IKEA furniture destroys some of Europe’s last remaining ancient forests - Greenpeace International
Furniture manufacturers producing for IKEA are sourcing wood from some of Europe’s last remaining old-growth forests in the Romanian Carpathians, including in Natura 2000 protected areas, new report f...
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 08/09/2026
Over Labor Day weekend, the Trump administration moved to roll back the Clean Water Act and strip protections from up to 94% of U.S. wetlands. The proposed rule would allow companies to pollute waters that help filter our drinking water and provide critical habitat without a permit.
Photo of Donald TrumpFlorida landowners in the Northern Everglades use conservation easements as a tool to restore their wetlands. Photo courtesy of USDA NRCS.
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Steve Ahlquist @steveahlquist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New report details inhumane and urgent conditions at the Wyatt ICE Detention Center in Rhode Island The report is based on a letter calling for outside aid from a detained community member... steveahlquist.substack.com/p/new-report...
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New report details inhumane and urgent conditions at the Wyatt ICE Detention Center in Rhode Island
The report is based on a letter calling for outside aid from a detained community member...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
MEMPHIS — @LeviAIsmail: “How does a search warrant turn into 100 people zip-tied and loaded up onto buses? I have a lot of questions.” #UNSafeTaskForce @GovBillLee @mayorpaulyoung #AbolishICE
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 05/09/2026
"In his second term alone, President Donald Trump has moved to strip protections from more than 86 million acres of American public land." Trump's attacks on our public lands are unprecedented in American history. These lands belong to us. He has no right to sell them off to private developers.
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Trump’s war on America’s public lands could leave damage no president can undo
The Trump administration is weakening protections for public lands, reviving rejected projects and putting national parks at risk.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’ll have more to post on this later but a) please feel free to subscribe to read the whole thing (there’s quite a bit), & b) my thesis is simple: Right now, the most urgent moral test for this nation today is happening in Springfield, Ohio We as a country are currently failing this test miserably
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Sonja Reitsma @sonjareitsma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE (Gift Article)
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 29/08/2026
The US sent a 3-year-old citizen to HAITI
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
⚠️ CHILDREN IN CHAINS 🧒🏽⛓️ 🧊✈️ KANSAS CITY: A shackled man watches above as two boys climb the stairs to join him on an ICE flight (GlobalX – N319NV) Friday to Louisiana 👀
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Florida grand jury found Gov. Ron DeSantis's admin "misappropriated" a Medicaid settlement into Hope Florida Foundation — an org "championed" by 1st lady Casey DeSantis… $10 million for a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities…” thehill.com/homenews/sta...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The "constant roaring"... "It's like you're in the middle of the airport where the planes are taking off, but they never take off," she said. www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...
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Elon Musk's data centers are pushing out a family that's owned land since "before people of color were allowed to"
A plant in Southaven, Mississippi, that powers Elon Musk's SpaceXAI data centers in the area has sparked backlash from residents concerned about noise and air pollution.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
An American from Ohio is currently trapped in his family home in the West Bank, surrounded by Israeli terrorist settlers. In response, Israel declared the area a closed military zone — in which the American can't leave his house, but the Israeli terrorists can roam freely.
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‘I Am an American Citizen Under Siege by Israeli Settler Extremists’
Palestinian-American Loui Ridi speaks to Prem from his home in the occupied West Bank, which has been surrounded by settlers for weeks while Israeli soldiers and the U.S. government largely sit by.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026
Elder Chavez was following the required steps to gain permanent legal status when he was detained. He carried his papers everywhere so he wouldn’t be mistaken as undocumented. “I’m legal in this country,” he told officers. It didn’t matter.
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These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Data centers in the 7 states with the highest concentration of them use more water than L.A., Phoenix, and D.C. combined. Now Trump's EPA is making it even harder for communities to push back against them. He's forcing the Big Tech takeover on America, democracy be damned.
nytimes.com
E.P.A. Moves to Curb Public Input on Air Pollution Permits for Data Centers
Under the proposal, states would no longer need to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data centers and other projects.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/08/2026
US immigration agents arrested more than 49,500 people in July aje.news/u38gth
US immigration agents arrested more than 49,500 people in July
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 26/08/2026
While the answer may seem obvious, in an era of misinformation, it may be hard to find the facts & science. Climate change refers to long-term temperature & weather shifts, which can occur naturally but have been mainly driven by human activity since the 1800s: www.un.org/en/climatech...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/08/2026
It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2026
The Trump administration has granted Clean Air Act exemptions to ~200 polluting facilities across the country that fall disproportionately in majority-nonwhite communities. On Aug. 25 at 4 pm ET, join us to discuss what this means for public health 👇 w/ @chicagotribune.com @deepsouthtoday.org
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Clean Air Act: Dismantling One of the Country’s Bedrock Environmental Laws
Join us for a discussion about the rollback of the Clean Air Act and what it means for public health in communities across America.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/08/2026
Yesterday, Aug. 20, was one of the worst days of ICE flights I've seen. -At least 82 ICE flights -At least 15 were removal flights, including Haiti -At least 5 removals were third-country removals (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Liberia, Paraguay, Rwanda) -Plus 1 emergency return for reasons unknown
An ADSBx map showing 35 planes flying all over the Americas and Africa, emanating out of Louisiana and TexasAn ADSBx map showing North and Central America, showing roundup flights to northern cities, about a dozen removal flights to central America and the Caribbean.A closeup of Alexandria, La, showing GlobalX's N966AD taking off and then quickly returning to the airport.
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The New York Times en Español @nytimeses.nytimes.com · 21/08/2026
El gobierno de EE. UU. ha suspendido la atención especializada para personas transgénero detenidas dentro de al menos 10 centros de detención. Las autoridades ya no proporcionan hormonas y otras atenciones relacionadas con el género o medidas para la protección de los reclusos transgénero.
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Migrantes trans en centros de detención del ICE están perdiendo sus derechos y atención médica
En ocasiones, las autoridades de EE. UU. han eliminado el acceso a tratamientos relacionados con el género y han suprimido medidas destinadas a proteger a las personas trans detenidas del acoso.
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Reading this sickening headline instantly turned me into Marilyn Monroe in the climactic scene of The Misfits.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 20/08/2026
Nader fled Yemen as a child. Now, at just 24 years old, he has been stuck inside of Stewart Detention Center for two years. This is absolutely heartbreaking and this cruelty must end.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 20/08/2026
Israel has finally admitted to killing Hind Rajab. 933 days later. Zeteo's @premthakker.bsky.social spent years pressing the US and Israeli governments on this killing – all for them to deflect and lie. If it took this long for the truth to come out, how can you trust Israel on anything?
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 18/08/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration just took action to roll back the Roadless Rule and gut protections that have safeguarded forests for over 25 years—a move that would benefit the timber industry through unchecked logging.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Horrific… Virginia… meidasnews.com/news/lawyer-...
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