jennifer kates
@jenniferkates.bsky.social
public interest law/policy/advocacy always. opinions and idealism all mine. 🔗 https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/leadership-in-government-fellowship
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Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.
Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 15-17 November 2025
Approve: 11% (-2 from 8-10 Nov)
Disapprove: 69% (-1)
Net: -58 (-1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Approve: 11% (-2 from 8-10 Nov)
Disapprove: 69% (-1)
Net: -58 (-1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.
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Our next bath of 3D printed whistles are in process, and we have requests to supply multiple large trainings over the next 2 weeks.
We’ll also hand out hundreds of whistles (for free!) in heavily immigrant communities this week.
We’ll also hand out hundreds of whistles (for free!) in heavily immigrant communities this week.
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Our next bath of 3D printed whistles are in process, and we have requests to supply multiple large trainings over the next 2 weeks.
We’ll also hand out hundreds of whistles (for free!) in heavily immigrant communities this week.
We’ll also hand out hundreds of whistles (for free!) in heavily immigrant communities this week.
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When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
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Commentary: After a year of volunteering weekly, my faith in the world slowly started to restore like a cup filling up again, forces for good overpowering all the sadness.
Ofelia Casillas: I found faith at a Chicago food pantry
To me, the food pantry isn’t a religious place. But increasingly, it is holy.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Commentary: After a year of volunteering weekly, my faith in the world slowly started to restore like a cup filling up again, forces for good overpowering all the sadness.
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
“You all, we all, deserve everything and more”
Thank you Alice for being one of our fiercest ‘disabled oracles’ — and lighting the way so brightly that the dazzle and warmth of your fire is with us still ❤️🔥
Thank you Alice for being one of our fiercest ‘disabled oracles’ — and lighting the way so brightly that the dazzle and warmth of your fire is with us still ❤️🔥
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“You all, we all, deserve everything and more”
Thank you Alice for being one of our fiercest ‘disabled oracles’ — and lighting the way so brightly that the dazzle and warmth of your fire is with us still ❤️🔥
Thank you Alice for being one of our fiercest ‘disabled oracles’ — and lighting the way so brightly that the dazzle and warmth of your fire is with us still ❤️🔥
When it’s wear purple in honor of Ruby Bridges day tomorrow and your kid doesn’t have anything purple
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
When it’s wear purple in honor of Ruby Bridges day tomorrow and your kid doesn’t have anything purple
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Just dagger after dagger
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Just dagger after dagger
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I'll be tabling at the Philly Zine Fest next Saturday Nov 1. Stop by and I will also have some free zines along with the ones available for purchase. www.phillyzinefest.org
Philly Zine Fest – Celebrating DIY & small press publishing since 2002
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October 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I'll be tabling at the Philly Zine Fest next Saturday Nov 1. Stop by and I will also have some free zines along with the ones available for purchase. www.phillyzinefest.org
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Yesterday, @mayorwu.boston.gov signed my Surplus Municipal Property for Affordable Housing Ordinance into law. This new law ensures that when city buildings go offline, they’re first considered for affordable housing. Thank you to all the advocates and community members who made this possible!
October 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yesterday, @mayorwu.boston.gov signed my Surplus Municipal Property for Affordable Housing Ordinance into law. This new law ensures that when city buildings go offline, they’re first considered for affordable housing. Thank you to all the advocates and community members who made this possible!
What. Wild.
The Ultimate Pilgrimage for the Middle-Aged Skateboarder
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October 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
What. Wild.
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According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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October 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
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Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.
October 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.
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I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.
You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.
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Hey so we're doing our fall fundraising campaign and I want to share with you why it's so important. 🧵
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I just donated to The American Prospect
My donation supports independent, fact-checked, professional journalism, which is now more valuable than ever before.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Hey so we're doing our fall fundraising campaign and I want to share with you why it's so important. 🧵
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hundreds of engineers, teachers, or outreach workers sounds good. I'd like a "full force" helping of that, please
September 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
hundreds of engineers, teachers, or outreach workers sounds good. I'd like a "full force" helping of that, please
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Billionaire Jeff Yass isn’t interested in justice — he’s interested in control.
Yass wants a Pennsylvania Supreme Court that shields his fortune and advances his agenda — not one that protects the public.
Yass wants a Pennsylvania Supreme Court that shields his fortune and advances his agenda — not one that protects the public.
Pa.’s richest man is pouring money in upcoming supreme court election
Pennsylvania’s biggest billionaire has so far spent $1.25 million on a ‘vote no’ campaign in the upcoming Pa. Supreme Court race.
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September 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Billionaire Jeff Yass isn’t interested in justice — he’s interested in control.
Yass wants a Pennsylvania Supreme Court that shields his fortune and advances his agenda — not one that protects the public.
Yass wants a Pennsylvania Supreme Court that shields his fortune and advances his agenda — not one that protects the public.
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In light of reports that the Trump Admin has asked SCOTUS to decide the merits of its effort to end birthright citizenship, I’m re-upping my assessment - reluctantly arrived at - of the majority’s likely response to Trump’s unconstitutional demand. I pray I’m wrong. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Facing this Court
A Sober Look at What to Expect in Trump v. Casa And What We Do About It
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September 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In light of reports that the Trump Admin has asked SCOTUS to decide the merits of its effort to end birthright citizenship, I’m re-upping my assessment - reluctantly arrived at - of the majority’s likely response to Trump’s unconstitutional demand. I pray I’m wrong. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Mamdani serves a full, nutritious meal in an era where politics is either deadly poison or vacuous junk food. He uses the tried and true "we did, we can, we will" framework that helps abate cynicism but without papering over past harms or present injustice.
September 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mamdani serves a full, nutritious meal in an era where politics is either deadly poison or vacuous junk food. He uses the tried and true "we did, we can, we will" framework that helps abate cynicism but without papering over past harms or present injustice.
That moment when @ichotiner.bsky.social just can’t take it any more
September 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
That moment when @ichotiner.bsky.social just can’t take it any more
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a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
Opinion | The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society
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September 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
September 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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This actually happened.
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there
September 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This actually happened.
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“This is all feeling awfully like home,” a friend of mine from Russia texted me yesterday evening. www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it
This Is It
Obedience and Support are the Same
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September 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“This is all feeling awfully like home,” a friend of mine from Russia texted me yesterday evening. www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it
This yesterday. And today, a “civics education” plan from DOE that consists of shoveling money into the worst of right wing infrastructure. Dark fucking times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
September 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This yesterday. And today, a “civics education” plan from DOE that consists of shoveling money into the worst of right wing infrastructure. Dark fucking times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...