@junoemme.bsky.social
Lawyer for workers. Mouthy NYC public school parent. Mother of lunatic children and dogs.
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For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: ‘I felt like a piece of trash’
The Tribune spoke to U.S. citizens and green card holders who have either been questioned or detained during Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
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NEW LAWSUIT: We are suing Trump's EEOC for its decision not to investigate complaints of disparate-impact discrimination.
The EEOC is required by law to investigate charges of workplace discrimination. It cannot ignore the law because the president says so.
The EEOC is required by law to investigate charges of workplace discrimination. It cannot ignore the law because the president says so.
October 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
NEW LAWSUIT: We are suing Trump's EEOC for its decision not to investigate complaints of disparate-impact discrimination.
The EEOC is required by law to investigate charges of workplace discrimination. It cannot ignore the law because the president says so.
The EEOC is required by law to investigate charges of workplace discrimination. It cannot ignore the law because the president says so.
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Paraphrasing here...
Kagan: Assume this is completely illegal EO. How do the courts actually stop it?
Govt: Certify a class action.
Kagan: You'll argue there's no class to certify under FRCP.
Govt: Yeah true.
Kagan: So how else?
Govt: Have every individual affected sue.
Barrett: Seriously?
Kagan: Assume this is completely illegal EO. How do the courts actually stop it?
Govt: Certify a class action.
Kagan: You'll argue there's no class to certify under FRCP.
Govt: Yeah true.
Kagan: So how else?
Govt: Have every individual affected sue.
Barrett: Seriously?
May 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Paraphrasing here...
Kagan: Assume this is completely illegal EO. How do the courts actually stop it?
Govt: Certify a class action.
Kagan: You'll argue there's no class to certify under FRCP.
Govt: Yeah true.
Kagan: So how else?
Govt: Have every individual affected sue.
Barrett: Seriously?
Kagan: Assume this is completely illegal EO. How do the courts actually stop it?
Govt: Certify a class action.
Kagan: You'll argue there's no class to certify under FRCP.
Govt: Yeah true.
Kagan: So how else?
Govt: Have every individual affected sue.
Barrett: Seriously?
My most excellent colleague and friend is running for Colorado Attorney General. David is the real deal, a true warrior for workers, consumers, tenants, and all of us. Please consider supporting his campaign on launch day!
Not only do I want you in this fight, I NEED you in this fight. Because we are stronger when we work together. Donate $25 to fight with me a create a brighter tomorrow. secure.actblue.com/donate/dhs_s...
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May 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
My most excellent colleague and friend is running for Colorado Attorney General. David is the real deal, a true warrior for workers, consumers, tenants, and all of us. Please consider supporting his campaign on launch day!
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Sounds like it’s a mistake to leave public goods in the hands of billionaires who can decide at any moment they’re bored and don’t want to support them anymore bsky.app/profile/clar...
“‘Mommy, the guy who’s been giving money to our school doesn’t want to give it to us anymore,’” he told her.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
The Zuckerbergs Founded Two Bay Area Schools. Now They’re Closing.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, opened the schools to help communities of color. Some families wonder if the shutting of the schools is related to his D.E.I. retrenchment.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Sounds like it’s a mistake to leave public goods in the hands of billionaires who can decide at any moment they’re bored and don’t want to support them anymore bsky.app/profile/clar...
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The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.
Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP
The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.
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Continue this stuff. This stuff matters.
‘Target suffers eighth week of foot-traffic losses since caving on DEI
Costco, which resisted demands to end DEI, extends its streak of foot-traffic gains to 13.’
Costco, which resisted demands to end DEI, extends its streak of foot-traffic gains to 13.’
Target suffers eighth week of foot-traffic losses since caving on DEI
Costco, which resisted demands to end DEI, extends its streak of foot-traffic gains to 13.
www.retailbrew.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Continue this stuff. This stuff matters.
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Russ Vought's CFPB reversed a settlement and *sent back $100,000* to a mortgage company which discriminated to discourage Black customers.
Boeing is asking to rescind a guilty plea it already made.
Welcome to the age of the corporate pardon.
From Moe Tkacik:
prospect.org/justice/2025...
Boeing is asking to rescind a guilty plea it already made.
Welcome to the age of the corporate pardon.
From Moe Tkacik:
prospect.org/justice/2025...
Trump Scrambles to Pardon Corporate Criminals He Once Prosecuted
First the gutted CFPB pronounced ‘Whites Only’ marketing legal again. Now Boeing wants to renege on the sweetheart deal of the century.
prospect.org
March 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Russ Vought's CFPB reversed a settlement and *sent back $100,000* to a mortgage company which discriminated to discourage Black customers.
Boeing is asking to rescind a guilty plea it already made.
Welcome to the age of the corporate pardon.
From Moe Tkacik:
prospect.org/justice/2025...
Boeing is asking to rescind a guilty plea it already made.
Welcome to the age of the corporate pardon.
From Moe Tkacik:
prospect.org/justice/2025...
kids working overnight shifts, making america great again, got it www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...
Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants | CNN Business
Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wag...
www.cnn.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
kids working overnight shifts, making america great again, got it www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...
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American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.
March 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.
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in 2010 if you said "this Citizens United decision will end up with one single person buying the House of Representives like a pound of cheese, so as to impeach judges who rule against his coup attempt" you'd have been dismissed as a hysteric
The fact that the world’s richest man works at the behest of the executive and can buy out the legislature is massively outside the scope of what the framers could have imagined
there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
Musk Donates to G.O.P. Members of Congress Who Support Impeaching Judges
Amid a controversy over whether President Trump will abide by court rulings, Elon Musk gave the maximum to the campaigns of Republicans who back ousting judges who impede the administration.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
in 2010 if you said "this Citizens United decision will end up with one single person buying the House of Representives like a pound of cheese, so as to impeach judges who rule against his coup attempt" you'd have been dismissed as a hysteric