Lilly J. Goren
@gorenlj.bsky.social
Political Scientist. Pop Culture Enthusiast. Cook. Knitter. Always solving mysteries in small British villages.
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February 9, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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CDC Deputy Director Ralph Abraham thinks measles outbreaks are the “cost of doing business” in a world of global travel. Because travel didn't exist during the last 20 years, when we had effectively eliminated the disease, right?
‘Frustrating and Demoralizing’: The Measles Comeback Gets Worse
The disease is exploding in South Carolina, we’re about to lose elimination status, and RFK Jr.’s team says it’s just the “cost of doing business.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:00 AM
CDC Deputy Director Ralph Abraham thinks measles outbreaks are the “cost of doing business” in a world of global travel. Because travel didn't exist during the last 20 years, when we had effectively eliminated the disease, right?
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
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The United States government is retaliating against 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family for having the temerity to challenge their unlawful detention with a habeas petition.
That’s retaliation. This is Kilmar Ábrego García all over again. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
That’s retaliation. This is Kilmar Ábrego García all over again. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 7:52 PM
The United States government is retaliating against 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family for having the temerity to challenge their unlawful detention with a habeas petition.
That’s retaliation. This is Kilmar Ábrego García all over again. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
That’s retaliation. This is Kilmar Ábrego García all over again. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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3 new books I am realllllllly excited about this spring:
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social's
Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship
@letsgomathias.bsky.social's
To Catch a Fascist
@thrasherxy.bsky.social's
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
(will thread links to buy these below!)
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social's
Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship
@letsgomathias.bsky.social's
To Catch a Fascist
@thrasherxy.bsky.social's
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
(will thread links to buy these below!)
February 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
3 new books I am realllllllly excited about this spring:
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social's
Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship
@letsgomathias.bsky.social's
To Catch a Fascist
@thrasherxy.bsky.social's
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
(will thread links to buy these below!)
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social's
Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship
@letsgomathias.bsky.social's
To Catch a Fascist
@thrasherxy.bsky.social's
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
(will thread links to buy these below!)
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this should be disqualifying
Another batch of Trump's judicial nominees refused in their confirmation hearings today to publicly acknowledge that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, which annoyed Sen. Richard Blumenthal enough for him to call them "monkeys" and "puppets"
February 6, 2026 at 2:09 PM
this should be disqualifying
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There's nothing subtle or complicated about what's going on here
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM
There's nothing subtle or complicated about what's going on here
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We used to fund USAID, which saved millions, but Elon Musk said it was a government propaganda front and so he shut it. Millions will die and the US govt is now funding actual MAGA propaganda.
February 6, 2026 at 1:52 PM
We used to fund USAID, which saved millions, but Elon Musk said it was a government propaganda front and so he shut it. Millions will die and the US govt is now funding actual MAGA propaganda.
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I am speechless.
"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I am speechless.
"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
Thank you, Sir Ian McKellen.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Thank you, Sir Ian McKellen.
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The Washington Post will shut down and refurbish for two years while Kid Rock writes most of the op/eds
February 5, 2026 at 1:27 PM
The Washington Post will shut down and refurbish for two years while Kid Rock writes most of the op/eds
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This should be front page news. There should be hearings about it.
"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 4, 2026 at 8:29 PM
This should be front page news. There should be hearings about it.
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DC is actually being treated thoroughly as occupied territory. Tearing down monuments/media institutions, hostile takeover of its core economic engine and industry, suppression of its local municipal government and security forces
In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires.
I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.
I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.
February 4, 2026 at 9:53 PM
DC is actually being treated thoroughly as occupied territory. Tearing down monuments/media institutions, hostile takeover of its core economic engine and industry, suppression of its local municipal government and security forces
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My latest, on the secretive legal weapon Homeland Security is using to target Americans.
Last fall, Jon, 67, emailed a DHS attorney, urging mercy for an asylum seeker. Hours later, DHS subpoenaed his Google account. Then it sent investigators to his home.
wapo.st/4rtfCw8
Last fall, Jon, 67, emailed a DHS attorney, urging mercy for an asylum seeker. Hours later, DHS subpoenaed his Google account. Then it sent investigators to his home.
wapo.st/4rtfCw8
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
wapo.st
February 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
My latest, on the secretive legal weapon Homeland Security is using to target Americans.
Last fall, Jon, 67, emailed a DHS attorney, urging mercy for an asylum seeker. Hours later, DHS subpoenaed his Google account. Then it sent investigators to his home.
wapo.st/4rtfCw8
Last fall, Jon, 67, emailed a DHS attorney, urging mercy for an asylum seeker. Hours later, DHS subpoenaed his Google account. Then it sent investigators to his home.
wapo.st/4rtfCw8
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We love them so much we send masked men with guns to terrorize them for not thinking exactly like us. That's love you see. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Q: Pope Leo cited Matthew 25:35 to critique Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda. How would you respond to Pope Leo in scripture?
MIKE JOHNSON: Sovereign borders are biblical and right and just. It's not because we hate the people on the outside. It's because we love the people on the inside.
MIKE JOHNSON: Sovereign borders are biblical and right and just. It's not because we hate the people on the outside. It's because we love the people on the inside.
February 4, 2026 at 12:33 PM
We love them so much we send masked men with guns to terrorize them for not thinking exactly like us. That's love you see. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Democrats should defund and restrain ICE to the degree possible. And they should insist on this condition at least: No ICE (or Border Patrol) anywhere near the polls or early voting election locations this fall.
Steve Bannon,
"We're gonna have ICE surround the polls...We'll never again allow an election to be stolen."
"We're gonna have ICE surround the polls...We'll never again allow an election to be stolen."
February 4, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Democrats should defund and restrain ICE to the degree possible. And they should insist on this condition at least: No ICE (or Border Patrol) anywhere near the polls or early voting election locations this fall.
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...and when Republicans whine that this wasn't one of the earlier conditions Democrats specified, Democrats simply have to say 1) my bad, and 2) they're adjusting in light of Trump's and Bannon's comments, and this is now a red line for them.
February 4, 2026 at 1:24 PM
...and when Republicans whine that this wasn't one of the earlier conditions Democrats specified, Democrats simply have to say 1) my bad, and 2) they're adjusting in light of Trump's and Bannon's comments, and this is now a red line for them.
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I talked to a woman who quit an AUSA job recently. She was asked by main DOJ to dismiss a Medicare fraud prosecution because the defendant was the daughter of a girlfriend of a MAGA figure.
February 3, 2026 at 2:59 PM
I talked to a woman who quit an AUSA job recently. She was asked by main DOJ to dismiss a Medicare fraud prosecution because the defendant was the daughter of a girlfriend of a MAGA figure.
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Why is there so much fraud in Scott Bessent’s South Carolina?
February 4, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Why is there so much fraud in Scott Bessent’s South Carolina?
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When you challenge the government they investigate you. Not a free society.
ICE is demanding the employment records at a Maine jail after a sheriff openly criticized immigration agents for arresting one of his guards
ICE demanded Maine sheriff’s employment records following his criticism of arrest
The subpoena came a day after Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce blasted immigration agents for arresting one of his guards.
www.bangordailynews.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:46 AM
When you challenge the government they investigate you. Not a free society.
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James Comer is bringing Hillary Clinton before his committee to testify about Epstein despite having zero contact with him, but not Epstein’s neighbor Howard Lutnick who lied about his connections to Epstein over many years which is proven in the files.
February 4, 2026 at 1:36 AM
James Comer is bringing Hillary Clinton before his committee to testify about Epstein despite having zero contact with him, but not Epstein’s neighbor Howard Lutnick who lied about his connections to Epstein over many years which is proven in the files.
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Defense attorney provides photos to show that a DHS agent shot through the front door of a Venezuelan man’s home, and a bullet “traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep.”
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
February 4, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Defense attorney provides photos to show that a DHS agent shot through the front door of a Venezuelan man’s home, and a bullet “traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep.”
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Her father was Zeus, who in the form of a swan, mated with her mother.
But her skin color is where suspension of disbelief fails you?
But her skin color is where suspension of disbelief fails you?
February 3, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Her father was Zeus, who in the form of a swan, mated with her mother.
But her skin color is where suspension of disbelief fails you?
But her skin color is where suspension of disbelief fails you?