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Lynne Jackier

@yourneighbor57.bsky.social
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Retired from a career in Early Childhood Education. Grandmother. Married to the love of my life! ❤️ Lifelong learner of how to be an antiracist and advocate for justice, equity & human rights for all. Just trying to "do the next right thing." she/her cis

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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 11h
I just learned about this legislation beimg sponsored by 30+ House members.
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New Way Forward Act
The Immigrant Justice Network and a coalition of organizations are asking Congress to pave a New Way Forward for immigrant justice.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 11h
Bio weapons
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 04/10/2026
The Trump administration has moved to cripple Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment on the same day New York prosecutors reopened the investigation into heinous allegations of a fraternity gang rape at Cornell University. trib.al/KbxIxZV
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Trump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape Investigation
The Education Department has just weakened protections for sexual assault victims in schools.
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Does this mean that if someone is intoxicated and I take their wallet it's not really theft if they don't say "no."
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/10/2026
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy "A riot is the language of the unheard." - Martin Luther King, Jr. I guess they supported terrorism too? Or maybe they just understood where violence and genocide lead.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is what The Resistance looks like. ❤️🙏
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I believe it’s greed.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Next up - thumb screws for people with unpaid parking tickets: “You can’t coddle these criminals. Next they’ll refuse to pay library fines!”
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a direct result of Trump’s attacks on NATO. He is putting the entire world in danger.
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It seems like he is working hard to create a military that con be controlled by just him. This is dangerous.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026
Hey y'all, I don't usually share GFMs but Katra is a good friend and the fact that her job was terminated literally a day before her bottom surgery is atrocious. Definitely go give her some help if you can.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 30/09/2026
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a now-viral essay about her decision to send her daughter to high-poverty, predominantly Black public schools in her New York city neighborhood — and how they both feel about that choice 10 years later. to.pbs.org/4hyDY4f
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Nikole Hannah-Jones on the backlash to her viral essay about school choice
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a now-viral essay about her decision to send her daughter to high-poverty, predominantly Black public schools in her New York city neighborh...
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More reasons to end all FLOCK/ALPR contracts asap.
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is pure evil.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope Michiganders elect Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate. He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States. robertreich.substack.com/p/senator-…
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Senator Abdul El-Sayed
He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration was found in contempt of court Friday for wrongfully deporting a Salvadoran young man last month for the second time — after he had already been unlawfully deported in March, then returned to the U.S., before being removed again.
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Judge Finds Trump Admin in Contempt of Court Again for Wrongful Deportation
Three Different Court Orders Violated The Trump administration was found in contempt...
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Activists laid gravestones outside a suburban ICE facility to honor those who died in federal custody. buff.ly/ZGrssG5
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If the nation wasn’t led by madmen, this would be a huge story. As it is, Trump’s offer to sell weapons to our most powerful adversary is just another sign of America’s national suicide.
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...
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MUSK | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They have been trying to destroy the ACA since its inception. We saw how DOGE used “fraud” as an excuse to gut important federal departments. This is more of the same. They are breaking as much as they before we can stop them. Fine then. Universal health care it is.
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Washington Post keeps hosting their PR attempts to make it seem like anyone at all is rational in this administration.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/09/2026
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down. trib.al/80J1v0P
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The fascist torture methods are multiplying. This id horrible.
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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 25/09/2026
The required trans inclusion training at my job goes really hard on “absolutely everyone has to be able to use the bathroom without being hassled. it is a physical need you 100% have to accommodate, no ifs ands or buts” and I wish that carried over to, like, citywide bathroom access as general right
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows DHS to use its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database with Social Security info, staying a district court order that had vacated the new policy. Justice Jackson dissents for the three Dem appointees. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
F☠️CK SCOTUS!
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 25/09/2026
Mark Carney says Canada has prepared for ‘extreme tail risk’ of US military action
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Mark Carney says Canada has prepared for ‘extreme tail risk’ of US military action
Prime minister outlines a tense, evolving relationship with US president Donald Trump
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
Equality PAC, the campaigning arm of the Congressional Equality Caucus, announced its endorsement of Marcy Kaptur and other anti-trans Dems days after political ads targeting trans people. Even the LGBTQ+ congressional caucus is throwing trans people aside. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Equality PAC, Political Arm Of Congressional LGBTQ Caucus, Endorses Marcy Kaptur Days After Her Anti-Trans Ad
“Do we need to endorse people in order to support them? Do we need to support them in order to have power in Congress?”
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.
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springtomind.bsky.social @springtomind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you read what the Heritage Foundation is up to, it all makes sense what Republicans are doing. They want a white nationalist society. It is terrifying to realize they have pursued this mission for decades, and they have never been closer to achieving it.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Instead of hot takes & uninformed opinions, Blacksplained asks a scholar, expert or person who knows things to tackle ONE ISSUE from a Black perspective: This week, in her one & only interview, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones Blacksplains "The Article."
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‘The Article’ Blacksplained by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Michael Harriot sits down with The New York Times journalist and author of “The 1619 Project” for her first (and only) interview about the article that broke the internet.
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is fascist targeting. Language meant to scare people, and to incite violence once we take back the House.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 23/09/2026
The Trump administration recently announced the launch of a new national drinking-water study that will test for traces of the drugs used in medical abortions, as potential pollutants. There is no scientific need or explanation for such a study. This is the government hoping to scare women.
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A Bad-News Week for Reproductive Freedom
But there is hope.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Your regular reminder that this is a public website and things that you say can and will be used against you.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There are CONCENTRATION CAMPS in the U.S. Now there are mobile ones in the works. We need to put an end to this build out of fascist infrastructure. #StopTheCamps
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I stand with trans people.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
this is a genuinely crazy story
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Powerful plea today from my colleagues on the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board, urging Pennsylvania to join most of our neighboring states in blocking local cops from working with ICE under 287(g), in which police terrorize our immigrant communities www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...
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Pennsylvania’s shameful contribution to President Trump’s immigration crackdown | Editorial
Gov. Shapiro should seize the opportunity to counter a cruel attack on the state’s communities.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
because the ny times wants to kneecap AOC the way they did hillary clinton. they don't do this for any other politician but her. and we must pound them into the dust for this.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“He was going into shock,” witness Ryan Garton said, adding that the victim was repeatedly saying he was a US citizen, was shaking and was asking “why they assaulted him.” "It looked like they randomly targeted the guy and said, ‘Let’s take this one,’” Garton said.
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Enabling and promoting the very worst impulses in people.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How will we clean up Trump's unholy mess? Here are my 10 Commandments for Congress. These are major structural reforms that every midterm candidate should support.
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How to Rebuild America After Trump
How will we clean up Trump's unholy mess?Here are my 10 Commandments for Congress.These are major structural reforms tha
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Lynne Jackier @yourneighbor57.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"I am asking you to stop for a moment and just notice what’s happening as the pressure on prominent members of persecuted groups goes up and up. To notice that we’re playing a subtraction game."
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 22/09/2026
"The merger puts CBS and CNN under joint ownership of the MAGA-friendly mogul. Despite weak promises to invest in production, the merger will inevitably reduce jobs and media diversity."
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Words & Phrases: Ellison’s ‘Editorial Independence’ PLUS Trump’s ‘Noncitizen Voting’
🚨42 Days to the Midterms🚨
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Montana Free Press @montanafreepress.org · 22/09/2026
A federal judge ordered the release of 24 immigration detainees late last week, and more are expected to be released soon as the case continues.
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Dozens of warrantless arrests deemed wrongful in class-action immigration case
Upper Seven Law announced that 24 "unlawfully detained individuals" had been released from the Cascade County Detention Center. More are expected to be released as the court considers further petition...
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
wow. the mother of one of the citizen teen who spoke out about being detained by ICE while trying to enlist has been deported www.krgv.com/news/mother-...
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Mother of teen detained in viral Alamo ICE arrest video deported
The mother of a 17-year-old detained by ICE in a viral Alamo, Texas incident has been deported to Mexico, raising concerns among legal experts about potential retaliation for speaking out.
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