Anka
@anka32.bsky.social
Attorney; Writer; Researcher. 25 years documenting police misconduct across the country. Mom to a plethora of kids and cats.
Nothing like ten minutes of entitled liberals deciding what’s affordable for poor people to remind me that even Bluesky is a stunning waste of time and that the Democrats are never going to learn a damn thing from their arrogance; absolutely clueless about what life is really life for working poor.
June 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Nothing like ten minutes of entitled liberals deciding what’s affordable for poor people to remind me that even Bluesky is a stunning waste of time and that the Democrats are never going to learn a damn thing from their arrogance; absolutely clueless about what life is really life for working poor.
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some resources for protestors
A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them
crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...
A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them
crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...
A Demonstrator’s Guide to Understanding Riot Munitions
An extensive guide to less-lethal police weaponry—including chemical weapons and impact munitions—and how to defend against and treat their effects.
crimethinc.com
June 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
some resources for protestors
A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them
crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...
A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them
crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...
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What's happening in #LosAngeles is a popular response to authoritarian brutality + repression. People are taking the streets in defense of their neighbors + neighborhoods.
For this - Trump has send in the military. Read and share this report from @crimethinc.com. crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/l...
For this - Trump has send in the military. Read and share this report from @crimethinc.com. crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/l...
Los Angeles Stands up to ICE
Participants in the clashes of June 6 describe how people came together to stop federal agents from harming their community.
crimethinc.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:40 AM
What's happening in #LosAngeles is a popular response to authoritarian brutality + repression. People are taking the streets in defense of their neighbors + neighborhoods.
For this - Trump has send in the military. Read and share this report from @crimethinc.com. crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/l...
For this - Trump has send in the military. Read and share this report from @crimethinc.com. crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/l...
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A universal experience
this attorney is very politely saying these motherfuckers just makin shit up your honor
May 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A universal experience
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Students at the University of Washington have launched an occupation of a building to demand divestment. From a statement, they write "[UW is a] direct partner in the genocide of the Palestinian people through its allegiance to its partnership with Boeing." medium.com/@super.uw.se...
May 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Students at the University of Washington have launched an occupation of a building to demand divestment. From a statement, they write "[UW is a] direct partner in the genocide of the Palestinian people through its allegiance to its partnership with Boeing." medium.com/@super.uw.se...
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The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired.
The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.
The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.
The Trump Administration’s War on Children
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
www.propublica.org
April 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired.
The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.
The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.
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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.
April 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.
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WA international students are seeing their legal statuses get restored
WA international students are seeing their legal statuses get restored
At least nine Washington students whose legal status was revoked had their statuses reinstated.
www.seattletimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
WA international students are seeing their legal statuses get restored
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Lesson #13 from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: Practice Corporeal Politics.
"Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
"Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
open.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Lesson #13 from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: Practice Corporeal Politics.
"Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
"Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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I STAND WITH Jenner & Block, @wilmerhale.bsky.social , & Perkins, against tyranny and abuse of power. To paraphrase Judge Coughenor, History will look back and ask “where were the lawyers and judges” at this pivotal moment. Right here. www.jennerfirm.com
Jenner Stands Firm | Because Clients Deserve Fearless Advocates
On March 25 2025, Jenner & Block filed a lawsuit to stop an unconstitutional executive order that has already been declared unlawful by a federal court. We expect to prevail quickly. For more than 100...
www.jennerfirm.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I STAND WITH Jenner & Block, @wilmerhale.bsky.social , & Perkins, against tyranny and abuse of power. To paraphrase Judge Coughenor, History will look back and ask “where were the lawyers and judges” at this pivotal moment. Right here. www.jennerfirm.com
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A new idea that might work
March 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A new idea that might work
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NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.
Trump Admin Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence
Homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts.
www.huffpost.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.
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The Navajo Code Talkers are heroes. They helped our country defeat Nazis & fought for our freedom. It’s despicable that this administration has removed this history from their webpages. We will always honor them — even in the face of this administration’s hostility toward veterans.
Web pages honoring Navajo Code Talkers, who played a key role in American victories during World War II, vanished from U.S. military websites this week in an apparent purge tied to the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Defense Department: Navajo Code Talker content removed in DEI purge will be restored
The removal of web pages honoring Navajo Code Talkers following Trump's executive orders is generating outrage in New Mexico.
www.santafenewmexican.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The Navajo Code Talkers are heroes. They helped our country defeat Nazis & fought for our freedom. It’s despicable that this administration has removed this history from their webpages. We will always honor them — even in the face of this administration’s hostility toward veterans.
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The decision by U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes blocks the Department of Defense from carrying through with a policy directive designed to remove transgender servicemembers from the military.
Federal judge blocks Trump effort to ban transgender troops from military service
The decision by U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes blocks the Department of Defense from carrying through with a policy directive designed to remove transgender servicemembers from the military.
www.npr.org
March 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The decision by U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes blocks the Department of Defense from carrying through with a policy directive designed to remove transgender servicemembers from the military.
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NEWS: A federal judge barred the Trump administration from enforcing a ban on transgender peopel serving in the military, saying it was "soaked in animus," unconstitutional and justified by mischaracterizing data.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
March 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
NEWS: A federal judge barred the Trump administration from enforcing a ban on transgender peopel serving in the military, saying it was "soaked in animus," unconstitutional and justified by mischaracterizing data.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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France gave us the talking to that we sorely needed.
March 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
France gave us the talking to that we sorely needed.
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“It’s essentially, sending someone, we believe, outside of the United States with no due process. With no ability to refute the allegations against them.”
A constitutional crisis is here
The Trump administration, in defiance of a court order, deported Venezuleans to El Salvador. Government lawyers tried to argue it was just a technicality.
www.motherjones.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“It’s essentially, sending someone, we believe, outside of the United States with no due process. With no ability to refute the allegations against them.”
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You’d think “ICE is doing Abu Ghraib at Boston’s Logan Airport” would be a bigger story
The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."
March 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
You’d think “ICE is doing Abu Ghraib at Boston’s Logan Airport” would be a bigger story
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"Watch for the moment near the end where Charles Lindbergh is seen saying that we can’t help Britain win its war against Germany and shouldn’t be offering assistance: substitute Ukraine and Russia and fast-forward to 2024." From the archives: plus.thebulwark.com/p/nazi-town-...
‘Nazi Town, USA’: It Did Happen Here
A PBS documentary about the German-American Bund in the 1930s has some startling lessons for the present day.
plus.thebulwark.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
"Watch for the moment near the end where Charles Lindbergh is seen saying that we can’t help Britain win its war against Germany and shouldn’t be offering assistance: substitute Ukraine and Russia and fast-forward to 2024." From the archives: plus.thebulwark.com/p/nazi-town-...
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[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken]
CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
March 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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The stupidest shit you will read today…
Musk lacks social awareness and acts awkward around others. No Jewish group believed the arm gesture was a nazi salute. Listen to Jews about this. Elon is an outspoken ally and he will be treated as one
March 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The stupidest shit you will read today…
God damn it, don’t make me start appreciating this bastard.
March 8, 2025 at 6:25 AM
God damn it, don’t make me start appreciating this bastard.
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Columbia University sold out to fascists and brutally cracked down on kids whose only sin was opposing genocide.
The fascists threw the University under the bus anyway.
I feel like there's a lesson in there about complying with fascism.
The fascists threw the University under the bus anyway.
I feel like there's a lesson in there about complying with fascism.
March 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Columbia University sold out to fascists and brutally cracked down on kids whose only sin was opposing genocide.
The fascists threw the University under the bus anyway.
I feel like there's a lesson in there about complying with fascism.
The fascists threw the University under the bus anyway.
I feel like there's a lesson in there about complying with fascism.