especkielou
@especkielou.bsky.social
Attorney. Happy wife & mom. Farmer. Fmr public school teacher. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards justice. #tikkunolam 🌈 #BlackLivesMatter 🪩
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Dan Levy said he would do whatever it takes to tell the story of how Lilith Fair an all-female music festival would go on to change the scene for female artists. The documentary Lilith Fair Building a Mystery premiered at TIFF on September 13, 2025
📹 CBC News TikTok
📹 CBC News TikTok
September 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Dan Levy said he would do whatever it takes to tell the story of how Lilith Fair an all-female music festival would go on to change the scene for female artists. The documentary Lilith Fair Building a Mystery premiered at TIFF on September 13, 2025
📹 CBC News TikTok
📹 CBC News TikTok
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OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR LILITH FAIR: BUILDING A MYSTERY IS HERE. 🇨🇦 World Premiere at TIFF on September 13th
🇨🇦 Streaming in Canada on Septemeber 17th on CBC
🇺🇸 Streaming in the U.S. on September 21st on Hulu
🌍 Streaming internationally on September 21st on Disney+
🇨🇦 Streaming in Canada on Septemeber 17th on CBC
🇺🇸 Streaming in the U.S. on September 21st on Hulu
🌍 Streaming internationally on September 21st on Disney+
September 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR LILITH FAIR: BUILDING A MYSTERY IS HERE. 🇨🇦 World Premiere at TIFF on September 13th
🇨🇦 Streaming in Canada on Septemeber 17th on CBC
🇺🇸 Streaming in the U.S. on September 21st on Hulu
🌍 Streaming internationally on September 21st on Disney+
🇨🇦 Streaming in Canada on Septemeber 17th on CBC
🇺🇸 Streaming in the U.S. on September 21st on Hulu
🌍 Streaming internationally on September 21st on Disney+
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Here in Canada, we are celebrating the mRNA vaccine and it's Nobel prize winning scientist!
August 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Here in Canada, we are celebrating the mRNA vaccine and it's Nobel prize winning scientist!
I was brought up to say Never Again.
But it is happening again.
Right now. In the United States, and in Gaza.
But it is happening again.
Right now. In the United States, and in Gaza.
August 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I was brought up to say Never Again.
But it is happening again.
Right now. In the United States, and in Gaza.
But it is happening again.
Right now. In the United States, and in Gaza.
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Met with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social & @warren.senate.gov this weekend to talk Universal Child Care plans for New York. Big things are brewing ❤️
August 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Met with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social & @warren.senate.gov this weekend to talk Universal Child Care plans for New York. Big things are brewing ❤️
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Dismantling the Department of Education could be seen as of a piece with their larger efforts to dismantle Reconstruction.
July 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Dismantling the Department of Education could be seen as of a piece with their larger efforts to dismantle Reconstruction.
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Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
July 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
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There are 70,000 undocumented Polish people in the US. We haven’t noticed them being swept up here in Chicago, the city said to have the second biggest Polish population after Warsaw.
ICE has been very active in our Latino neighborhoods though.
ICE has been very active in our Latino neighborhoods though.
There are 50,000 undocumented Irish in the USA.
There are no plans to move any of them into FLA concentration camps or El Salvador torture gulags.
And everyone knows why.
There are no plans to move any of them into FLA concentration camps or El Salvador torture gulags.
And everyone knows why.
There are actually quite a few undocumented Russians in the US.
Anyone have any videos of ICE forcefully deporting them?
Or just the brown people?
Anyone have any videos of ICE forcefully deporting them?
Or just the brown people?
July 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
There are 70,000 undocumented Polish people in the US. We haven’t noticed them being swept up here in Chicago, the city said to have the second biggest Polish population after Warsaw.
ICE has been very active in our Latino neighborhoods though.
ICE has been very active in our Latino neighborhoods though.
Justice KBJ is a national hero of our times. We must protect her at all costs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke
www.nytimes.com
July 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Justice KBJ is a national hero of our times. We must protect her at all costs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
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This 👇 is going to fundamentally change America. An internal security force with ever expanding powers impacting citizens and non-citizens.
With a mission that already expands far beyond what Americans voted for in November 2024.
With a mission that already expands far beyond what Americans voted for in November 2024.
big beautiful bill passing would make the budget for ice larger than most of the world’s militaries
July 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This 👇 is going to fundamentally change America. An internal security force with ever expanding powers impacting citizens and non-citizens.
With a mission that already expands far beyond what Americans voted for in November 2024.
With a mission that already expands far beyond what Americans voted for in November 2024.
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Every word of this.
I don’t think institutional Dems have any idea how ridiculous and RACIST they look to the rest of us.
Standing up for Palestine is NOT what is threatening Jews.
White Christian Nationalism is what is threatening Jews.
That’s the reality.
I don’t think institutional Dems have any idea how ridiculous and RACIST they look to the rest of us.
Standing up for Palestine is NOT what is threatening Jews.
White Christian Nationalism is what is threatening Jews.
That’s the reality.
Trump just used the anti-semitic term "shylocks" to describe bankers.
No outrage, no asks for condemnation, no badgering of Republicans to ask if they support Trump's ugly statement. Nada.
Meanwhile, did you hear that Mamdani supports Palestinian rights and criticizes Israel?!?! GET HIM!
No outrage, no asks for condemnation, no badgering of Republicans to ask if they support Trump's ugly statement. Nada.
Meanwhile, did you hear that Mamdani supports Palestinian rights and criticizes Israel?!?! GET HIM!
July 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Every word of this.
I don’t think institutional Dems have any idea how ridiculous and RACIST they look to the rest of us.
Standing up for Palestine is NOT what is threatening Jews.
White Christian Nationalism is what is threatening Jews.
That’s the reality.
I don’t think institutional Dems have any idea how ridiculous and RACIST they look to the rest of us.
Standing up for Palestine is NOT what is threatening Jews.
White Christian Nationalism is what is threatening Jews.
That’s the reality.
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Worried Americans should really take a closer look at Poland and how they shifted their authoritarian rot, and also think about the challenges they face restoring a functioning democracy.
July 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Worried Americans should really take a closer look at Poland and how they shifted their authoritarian rot, and also think about the challenges they face restoring a functioning democracy.
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ICE now has 3x more funding than the United States Marine Corps. Our hard-earned taxpayer money. Over $170+ billion handed over, and for what?
To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
July 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
ICE now has 3x more funding than the United States Marine Corps. Our hard-earned taxpayer money. Over $170+ billion handed over, and for what?
To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
To rip families apart. To instill fear. To dismantle the very virtues by which this country was built. To help the rich get richer.
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We know too well the devastating consequences of such action—families torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and multigenerational trauma inflicted on a community for decades.
#AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow
#AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow
July 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We know too well the devastating consequences of such action—families torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and multigenerational trauma inflicted on a community for decades.
#AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow
#AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow
Turn on the tv and support our brother Hakeem Jeffries fighting for the American people for 8 hours and 42 minutes and going. Press On!! And Keep pressing!
July 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Turn on the tv and support our brother Hakeem Jeffries fighting for the American people for 8 hours and 42 minutes and going. Press On!! And Keep pressing!
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You should absolutely read @stevevladeck.bsky.social explainer for Trump v. CASA case limiting lower court iniunctions. Here the kicker paragraph: open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
June 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
You should absolutely read @stevevladeck.bsky.social explainer for Trump v. CASA case limiting lower court iniunctions. Here the kicker paragraph: open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
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GET IT SISTER - spike lee to coco gauff
WELL DONE COCO!!!!
WELL DONE COCO!!!!
June 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
GET IT SISTER - spike lee to coco gauff
WELL DONE COCO!!!!
WELL DONE COCO!!!!
Since Palantir will get the DOGE data,
& DOGE got the IRS and SSN data,
& ICE now has an SS secret masked police force to use this data against us all, isn’t it sort of Game Over for the avoidance of a totalitarian surveillance state?
and don’t forget re this week’s advances in drone warfare.
& DOGE got the IRS and SSN data,
& ICE now has an SS secret masked police force to use this data against us all, isn’t it sort of Game Over for the avoidance of a totalitarian surveillance state?
and don’t forget re this week’s advances in drone warfare.
June 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Since Palantir will get the DOGE data,
& DOGE got the IRS and SSN data,
& ICE now has an SS secret masked police force to use this data against us all, isn’t it sort of Game Over for the avoidance of a totalitarian surveillance state?
and don’t forget re this week’s advances in drone warfare.
& DOGE got the IRS and SSN data,
& ICE now has an SS secret masked police force to use this data against us all, isn’t it sort of Game Over for the avoidance of a totalitarian surveillance state?
and don’t forget re this week’s advances in drone warfare.
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George W. Bush, Republican President, 2001: No Child Left Behind
Current Republican President: ditch em all
Current Republican President: ditch em all
March 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
George W. Bush, Republican President, 2001: No Child Left Behind
Current Republican President: ditch em all
Current Republican President: ditch em all
The healthcare system and the prison system operate similarly in that they are both privatized disasters, but the difference is everyone has to interact with the healthcare system.
December 10, 2024 at 1:33 PM
The healthcare system and the prison system operate similarly in that they are both privatized disasters, but the difference is everyone has to interact with the healthcare system.