Jess Lee
@jesslee.bsky.social
Human rights attorney working for equity in education and the workplace. Black, Muslim, feminist, disabled, queer, golden ear. The one who always makes it weird.
(Formerly JessLeeEsq)
(Formerly JessLeeEsq)
People would rather support literal Nazis and CSAM profiteers than give up a tiny shred of their fame.
Disgusting.
Leave X now.
Disgusting.
Leave X now.
January 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
People would rather support literal Nazis and CSAM profiteers than give up a tiny shred of their fame.
Disgusting.
Leave X now.
Disgusting.
Leave X now.
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Today is a great day to remember that a memo leaked from Pam Bondi that suggested charging people who film ICE with domestic terrorism.
That’s how badly they don’t want to be filmed.
Today is a perfect example of why.
Everyone who filmed Renee Good’s murder has ensured the truth will out.
That’s how badly they don’t want to be filmed.
Today is a perfect example of why.
Everyone who filmed Renee Good’s murder has ensured the truth will out.
January 8, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Today is a great day to remember that a memo leaked from Pam Bondi that suggested charging people who film ICE with domestic terrorism.
That’s how badly they don’t want to be filmed.
Today is a perfect example of why.
Everyone who filmed Renee Good’s murder has ensured the truth will out.
That’s how badly they don’t want to be filmed.
Today is a perfect example of why.
Everyone who filmed Renee Good’s murder has ensured the truth will out.
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They shot an unarmed white woman in broad daylight.
Imagine what they’re doing to undocumented people trapped in ICE camps.
There’s sexual assault. There’s denial of medical care. There’s forced labour. There’s torture.
More than 30 people have died.
Abolish ICE.
Imagine what they’re doing to undocumented people trapped in ICE camps.
There’s sexual assault. There’s denial of medical care. There’s forced labour. There’s torture.
More than 30 people have died.
Abolish ICE.
January 8, 2026 at 5:29 AM
They shot an unarmed white woman in broad daylight.
Imagine what they’re doing to undocumented people trapped in ICE camps.
There’s sexual assault. There’s denial of medical care. There’s forced labour. There’s torture.
More than 30 people have died.
Abolish ICE.
Imagine what they’re doing to undocumented people trapped in ICE camps.
There’s sexual assault. There’s denial of medical care. There’s forced labour. There’s torture.
More than 30 people have died.
Abolish ICE.
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This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 1:39 AM
This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
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I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
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what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"
you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
The murdered woman's glove compartment is filled with stuffed animals.
January 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"
you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
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Federal agents blocked a man identifying himself as a doctor from reaching the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis, video shared with HuffPost shows www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
January 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Federal agents blocked a man identifying himself as a doctor from reaching the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis, video shared with HuffPost shows www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
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It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.
January 7, 2026 at 9:29 PM
It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.
Same, lmk if you learn anything please
January 7, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Same, lmk if you learn anything please
Can you share any insight into why this person is being called a legal observer?
January 7, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Can you share any insight into why this person is being called a legal observer?
My Gd, the unbelievable level of hubris poking Russia, the EU, and Venezuela at the same time!!
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Russian-flagged tanker seized by US military in North Atlantic waters, say officials – latest updates
US European Command says that the Venezuelan-linked Marinera, also known as the Bella 1, has been taken over due to ‘violations of US sanctions’
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:22 PM
My Gd, the unbelievable level of hubris poking Russia, the EU, and Venezuela at the same time!!
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
This story needs an ending!
January 7, 2026 at 1:07 AM
This story needs an ending!
JFC
January 7, 2026 at 1:05 AM
JFC
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If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time?
Really American FB
Really American FB
January 6, 2026 at 2:07 AM
If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time?
Really American FB
Really American FB
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New — I wrote about how corporate media is immediately siding with power in the wake of Trump attacking Venezuela and capturing Maduro, and how journalists need to treat the administration as a hostile entity that’s openly lying to them.
Call Trump's power grab in Venezuela what it is
Corporate media must recognize they're being openly lied to—and report accordingly.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 6, 2026 at 12:49 AM
New — I wrote about how corporate media is immediately siding with power in the wake of Trump attacking Venezuela and capturing Maduro, and how journalists need to treat the administration as a hostile entity that’s openly lying to them.
Ladies and gentlefolk, I give you the US legal system... (sigh)
Actual exchange from court today:
Me: I can't do January 20 for the hearing, your honor, because I'm having surgery, but I can do [dates in February]
Judge: Ordinarily I'd accommodate medical issues, but not for people like you. Attend from the hospital if you have to.
Me: I can't do January 20 for the hearing, your honor, because I'm having surgery, but I can do [dates in February]
Judge: Ordinarily I'd accommodate medical issues, but not for people like you. Attend from the hospital if you have to.
January 6, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Ladies and gentlefolk, I give you the US legal system... (sigh)
[screams into the void]
Q: Are you going to demand that Delcy Rodriguez allow opposition figures to return or free any political prisoners?
Trump: We haven't gotten to that. Right now, [all] we want to do is fix up the oil.
Trump: We haven't gotten to that. Right now, [all] we want to do is fix up the oil.
January 5, 2026 at 12:17 PM
[screams into the void]
They aren't even trying to hide their belief in white supremacy anymore
On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇
January 5, 2026 at 4:32 AM
They aren't even trying to hide their belief in white supremacy anymore
Can you say more about the allegations against Maduro's wife?
January 3, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Can you say more about the allegations against Maduro's wife?
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Either it was a limited operation merely to arrest Maduro and move on, or, it is an ongoing major regime change committment that will open up a transition including international and private sector partners. It really can't be both
January 3, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Either it was a limited operation merely to arrest Maduro and move on, or, it is an ongoing major regime change committment that will open up a transition including international and private sector partners. It really can't be both
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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
January 3, 2026 at 9:42 PM
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now.
Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet.
Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"
Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet.
Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"
January 3, 2026 at 7:17 PM
VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now.
Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet.
Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"
Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet.
Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"