@cyrand.bsky.social
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UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off.
We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
My detained client was scheduled for a bond hearing this AM in a MA immigration court. He wasn't brought in, and he and his case have disappeared.
I then received this notice of activity on a nonexistent docket in which his name was changed to "N/A"
It's all happening a lot faster than I expected
I then received this notice of activity on a nonexistent docket in which his name was changed to "N/A"
It's all happening a lot faster than I expected
April 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off.
We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
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In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.
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Updated estimates now put turnout at 1.55 million — and we’re still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you’re free, come out and join us!
April 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Updated estimates now put turnout at 1.55 million — and we’re still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you’re free, come out and join us!
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HAPPY #HANDS-DAY, everyone! ✊
WATCH LIVE: Protests ERUPT nationwide against the Trump-Musk regime
LIVE: MASSIVE PROTESTS ERUPT AGAINST TRUMP REGIME
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
www.youtube.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
HAPPY #HANDS-DAY, everyone! ✊
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This! Research shows that protests 1) raise awareness, 2) empower people (especially the disadvantaged), and 3) exert pressure on elites.
Anyone saying they don’t work is unfamiliar with the research and the history of movement building.
Anyone saying they don’t work is unfamiliar with the research and the history of movement building.
Less complaining about how big rallies don't do anything, more brainstorming about how to activate their attendees to get involved with targeted campaigns, direct action, and mutual aid.
April 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This! Research shows that protests 1) raise awareness, 2) empower people (especially the disadvantaged), and 3) exert pressure on elites.
Anyone saying they don’t work is unfamiliar with the research and the history of movement building.
Anyone saying they don’t work is unfamiliar with the research and the history of movement building.
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Do not believe “thousands”. There were 100,000 in NYC alone.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump’s out here swinging golf clubs while folks are in the streets fighting back. Voter suppression, wild tariffs, & straight-up disrespect for democracy—Folks are fed up, Trump & Elon. #HandsOff
Trump’s out here swinging golf clubs while folks are in the streets fighting back. Voter suppression, wild tariffs, & straight-up disrespect for democracy—Folks are fed up, Trump & Elon. #HandsOff
Protesters tee off against Trump and Musk in 'Hands Off!' rallies across the US
Thousands of demonstrators are rallying at sites across the U.S. against President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk.
apnews.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Do not believe “thousands”. There were 100,000 in NYC alone.
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To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
April 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
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Tens of thousands rally against Trump at DC ‘Hands Off’ protest
Tens of thousands rally against Trump at DC ‘Hands Off’ protest
Congress members Jamie Raskin, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar among speakers as demonstrators denounce ‘fascism’
Demonstrators estimated to be in the tens of thousands gathered in Washington on Saturday in a display of mass dissent against Donald Trump’s policies that organizers hoped would snowball into a rolling cycle of protests that could eventually stymie the US president in next year’s congressional elections.
Anger with Trump and his billionaire lieutenant, the SpaceX and Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk, was expressed in a sea of placards and banners on the Washington mall, in the shadow of the Washington monument. Multiple messages denounced the two men for shuttering government agencies, cutting jobs and services and – in often graphic terms – for threatening the survival of US democracy. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Tens of thousands rally against Trump at DC ‘Hands Off’ protest
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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Are universities going to start speaking up? Because if they think Trump pulling back federal dollars is an existential threat, they should see what happens when no international students want to come here for fear of ending up in a MAGA concentration camp.
March 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Are universities going to start speaking up? Because if they think Trump pulling back federal dollars is an existential threat, they should see what happens when no international students want to come here for fear of ending up in a MAGA concentration camp.
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Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.
February 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.
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Please read—this is becoming serious!
March 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Please read—this is becoming serious!
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DOGE lists 1,125 canceled contracts, claiming $7.2 billion in savings—but many were already completed, meaning no money was actually saved. In fact, 417 contracts saved $0, and another 51 added up to less than $1 million.
Misinformation spreads fast—sharing to set the record straight.
Misinformation spreads fast—sharing to set the record straight.
February 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
DOGE lists 1,125 canceled contracts, claiming $7.2 billion in savings—but many were already completed, meaning no money was actually saved. In fact, 417 contracts saved $0, and another 51 added up to less than $1 million.
Misinformation spreads fast—sharing to set the record straight.
Misinformation spreads fast—sharing to set the record straight.
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A federal judge in Washington said that the way the Trump administration set up and has been running Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency could violate the Constitution.
February 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A federal judge in Washington said that the way the Trump administration set up and has been running Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency could violate the Constitution.
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For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.
Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.
It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.
Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.
It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.
February 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.
Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.
It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.
Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.
It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.
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Yet another reason they deserve zero clicks.
Ziff Davis, owner of sites including IGN and CNET, quietly removed DEI language from its website.
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🔗 www.404media.co/ziff-davis-d...
February 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Yet another reason they deserve zero clicks.
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With all due respect, you're a United States Senator and that's a rent-a-cop from a private security firm with no authority to stop you.
You can't just take no for an answer here.
You can't just take no for an answer here.
We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.
February 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
With all due respect, you're a United States Senator and that's a rent-a-cop from a private security firm with no authority to stop you.
You can't just take no for an answer here.
You can't just take no for an answer here.
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it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.
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He also very directly and specifically blamed disabled people. And I am absolutely begging y’all to call it out and not leave us out of your activism. He literally named us. Why aren’t we on your list of at-risk groups?
January 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
He also very directly and specifically blamed disabled people. And I am absolutely begging y’all to call it out and not leave us out of your activism. He literally named us. Why aren’t we on your list of at-risk groups?
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also Puerto Rico, but considering Puerto Rico's status with the States? they should pull the same shit as Colombia if they can. idk anything about trade/tariff/this stuff. don't ask.
January 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
also Puerto Rico, but considering Puerto Rico's status with the States? they should pull the same shit as Colombia if they can. idk anything about trade/tariff/this stuff. don't ask.
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She should have to openly apologize for accosting *anyone* with this bigotry & pay for it. She shouldn't be there because this bullshit is what makes us unsafe in bathrooms. It was *never* trans women.
PinkNews [Jan 24] -- Rep. Lauren Boeber [R-CO] wrongly accosted a woman she believed to be openly trans Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) in the Capitol House women's room angrily telling her, “You shouldn’t be here.” --only to have to return and apologize. [HT denisenorris.bsky.social]
Trump fan Lauren Boebert left red-faced after 'accusing cis woman of being trans'
Republican Lauren Boebert was left red-faced after reportedly accusing a woman in a bathroom of being Delaware Democrat Sarah McBride.
www.thepinknews.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
She should have to openly apologize for accosting *anyone* with this bigotry & pay for it. She shouldn't be there because this bullshit is what makes us unsafe in bathrooms. It was *never* trans women.
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If you are a visa holder/temp resident in the U.S., and your child was born here and doesn't have a passport, GET A PASSPORT FOR THEM IMMEDIATELY. Like, make the appointment this week.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
January 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If you are a visa holder/temp resident in the U.S., and your child was born here and doesn't have a passport, GET A PASSPORT FOR THEM IMMEDIATELY. Like, make the appointment this week.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...