LMillzEsq (she/her)
@lmillzesq.bsky.social
Southern attorney who loves the food, not the gerrymandering. AuDHDer, queer, raised by scientists, focused on community, reliant on critical thinking. #MaskUp @LMillzEsq from Twitter.
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I know it's Texas, and we left bc I had a pretty solid idea of what was coming down the pike, but this is still a brutal kick in the gut to see the state's flagship university and my alma mater "honored" and "enthusiastic" to cement its place in history as a fascist collaborator.
October 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I know it's Texas, and we left bc I had a pretty solid idea of what was coming down the pike, but this is still a brutal kick in the gut to see the state's flagship university and my alma mater "honored" and "enthusiastic" to cement its place in history as a fascist collaborator.
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DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION:
My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then,
"Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."
My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then,
"Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."
March 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION:
My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then,
"Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."
My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then,
"Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."
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we're in a trade war with Canada over an amount of fentanyl that wouldn't even make a cop fake a seizure
March 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
we're in a trade war with Canada over an amount of fentanyl that wouldn't even make a cop fake a seizure
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one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult
"The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died from measles at the end of last month. Tom Bartlett visited with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy:
The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles
Her father tells her story.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult
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Thanks to @roxannek.bsky.social for this story in the Atlantic about AIR-BORNE--and air as a public good. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease
Treating clean indoor air as a public good would have protected Americans against more than COVID-19.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Thanks to @roxannek.bsky.social for this story in the Atlantic about AIR-BORNE--and air as a public good. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Announcement for 2025.
March 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Announcement for 2025.
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AIR-BORNE, @carlzimmer.com's new book, is an enthralling deep dive into airborne diseases. The colossal failure to recognize that #COVIDisAirborne is thoroughly reviewed.
Our podcast erictopol.substack.com/p/carl-zimme...
Open-access, with transcript and full video, + relevant links
Our podcast erictopol.substack.com/p/carl-zimme...
Open-access, with transcript and full video, + relevant links
Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid
One of the top science journalists of our time discusses his new book
erictopol.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
AIR-BORNE, @carlzimmer.com's new book, is an enthralling deep dive into airborne diseases. The colossal failure to recognize that #COVIDisAirborne is thoroughly reviewed.
Our podcast erictopol.substack.com/p/carl-zimme...
Open-access, with transcript and full video, + relevant links
Our podcast erictopol.substack.com/p/carl-zimme...
Open-access, with transcript and full video, + relevant links
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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
February 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
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Rufo straight up admits that the entire framing of being against "cancel culture" was BS and they just wanted to be the ones doing the "canceling."
Every radical centrist who was just asking questions in the Atlantic played their useful idiot role in bringing this to fruition.
Every radical centrist who was just asking questions in the Atlantic played their useful idiot role in bringing this to fruition.
February 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Rufo straight up admits that the entire framing of being against "cancel culture" was BS and they just wanted to be the ones doing the "canceling."
Every radical centrist who was just asking questions in the Atlantic played their useful idiot role in bringing this to fruition.
Every radical centrist who was just asking questions in the Atlantic played their useful idiot role in bringing this to fruition.
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On the HHS Leadership call today: 1 employee from CMS (Center for Medicare/Medicaid Service) and 2 employees from SSA (Social Security Administration) have died by suicide after their firing.
February 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
On the HHS Leadership call today: 1 employee from CMS (Center for Medicare/Medicaid Service) and 2 employees from SSA (Social Security Administration) have died by suicide after their firing.
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The importance of ensuring the White House can be held accountable for its actions is more vital than ever, but existing accountability mechanisms have largely failed. @jshaub.bsky.social puts forward a new approach: a multimember, independent commission for White House “inspections”.
White House Investigations: A Proposal for a New Approach
Mechanisms for investigating the White House have proven inadequate and have been undermined by partisanship and Trump v. United States.
www.lawfaremedia.org
February 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The importance of ensuring the White House can be held accountable for its actions is more vital than ever, but existing accountability mechanisms have largely failed. @jshaub.bsky.social puts forward a new approach: a multimember, independent commission for White House “inspections”.
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"In other words, Republicans are primarily focused on boosting Elon Musk and other Big Tech CEOs as they enter digital payment markets, determined to make managing and transferring money a regulatory-free zone."
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
The CFPB Shutdown Is Entirely About Payment Apps
Elon Musk and other Big Tech CEOs want to manage your money without any regulatory protections.
prospect.org
February 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"In other words, Republicans are primarily focused on boosting Elon Musk and other Big Tech CEOs as they enter digital payment markets, determined to make managing and transferring money a regulatory-free zone."
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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County clerks in the state, who administer Utah’s elections, have expressed worries about how the bill might impact their offices’ budgets, their ability to do their job and voter participation. That has not changed with the new substitute bill.
Universal vote by mail is popular in Utah. GOP lawmakers continue to move away from it in a revised bill.
Utah lawmakers revised an elections reform bill to require voters to opt in to receiving a ballot in the mail starting in 2028.
www.sltrib.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
County clerks in the state, who administer Utah’s elections, have expressed worries about how the bill might impact their offices’ budgets, their ability to do their job and voter participation. That has not changed with the new substitute bill.
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Breaking
A federal judge will NOT pause his order giving the Trump admin a deadline of 11:59 p.m. tonight to pay all invoices for foreign development funds for contracts completed before Feb. 13.
Doc https://buff.ly/3EWALvP
A federal judge will NOT pause his order giving the Trump admin a deadline of 11:59 p.m. tonight to pay all invoices for foreign development funds for contracts completed before Feb. 13.
Doc https://buff.ly/3EWALvP
February 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Breaking
A federal judge will NOT pause his order giving the Trump admin a deadline of 11:59 p.m. tonight to pay all invoices for foreign development funds for contracts completed before Feb. 13.
Doc https://buff.ly/3EWALvP
A federal judge will NOT pause his order giving the Trump admin a deadline of 11:59 p.m. tonight to pay all invoices for foreign development funds for contracts completed before Feb. 13.
Doc https://buff.ly/3EWALvP
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Elon Musk’s Cruel Cuts Expose What MAGA Really Thinks of Veterans newrepublic.com/article/1918... via @newrepublic.com
Elon Musk’s Cruel Cuts Expose What MAGA Really Thinks of Veterans
Thousands of military vets, many of them disabled, have been fired during the Trump administration’s mass purge. And it’s just the beginning.
newrepublic.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Elon Musk’s Cruel Cuts Expose What MAGA Really Thinks of Veterans newrepublic.com/article/1918... via @newrepublic.com
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OPINION: "Our research looks at how African American communities struggling for freedom have long used maps to protest and survive racism while affirming the value of Black life," Joshua Inwood and Derek Alderman write.
Opinion | Black Communities Used Mapping to Spread Information
Joshua Inwood and Derek Alderman write about how the American Black community used maps as a source of spreading information and liberation.
buff.ly
February 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
OPINION: "Our research looks at how African American communities struggling for freedom have long used maps to protest and survive racism while affirming the value of Black life," Joshua Inwood and Derek Alderman write.
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The Trump administration's denial of accurate passports has already wreaked havoc for transgender, non-binary, and intersex people.
We're taking the administration to court because we all deserve control over our own identities.
We're taking the administration to court because we all deserve control over our own identities.
Trump's passport policy leaves trans, intersex Americans in the lurch
President Trump's executive order that the federal government recognizes only two sexes, male and female, is disrupting the lives of some trans, nonbinary and intersex people applying for passports.
www.npr.org
February 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The Trump administration's denial of accurate passports has already wreaked havoc for transgender, non-binary, and intersex people.
We're taking the administration to court because we all deserve control over our own identities.
We're taking the administration to court because we all deserve control over our own identities.
Why this isn't awful:
- anyone can already file a discrim. claim, including those from 'majority backgrounds'
- the issue before SCOTUS is if MB claimants need to show their employer did this habitually, a higher burden imposed by 6Cir
- likely to be rev'd + rem'd, shouldn't need to prove a trend
- anyone can already file a discrim. claim, including those from 'majority backgrounds'
- the issue before SCOTUS is if MB claimants need to show their employer did this habitually, a higher burden imposed by 6Cir
- likely to be rev'd + rem'd, shouldn't need to prove a trend
The US Supreme Court is set to consider an Ohio woman's claim that she was denied a promotion and demoted because she is straight in a case that could make it easier for people from 'majority backgrounds,' such as white or heterosexual, to pursue workplace discrimination claims reut.rs/43et0LU
Straight woman's 'reverse' discrimination case goes to US Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider an Ohio woman's claim that she was denied a promotion and demoted because she is straight in a case that could make it easier for people from "majority backgrounds," such as white or heterosexual people, to pursue workplace discrimination claims.
reut.rs
February 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Why this isn't awful:
- anyone can already file a discrim. claim, including those from 'majority backgrounds'
- the issue before SCOTUS is if MB claimants need to show their employer did this habitually, a higher burden imposed by 6Cir
- likely to be rev'd + rem'd, shouldn't need to prove a trend
- anyone can already file a discrim. claim, including those from 'majority backgrounds'
- the issue before SCOTUS is if MB claimants need to show their employer did this habitually, a higher burden imposed by 6Cir
- likely to be rev'd + rem'd, shouldn't need to prove a trend
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If you work for or are impacted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development or the Department of Transportation, @jessecoburn.bsky.social wants to hear from you.
Reach out on Signal at 917-239-6642.
Reach out on Signal at 917-239-6642.
February 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you work for or are impacted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development or the Department of Transportation, @jessecoburn.bsky.social wants to hear from you.
Reach out on Signal at 917-239-6642.
Reach out on Signal at 917-239-6642.
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OPINION: "For every 100 low-income families in Mississippi, only 60 affordable-housing units are available," Maisie Brown writes.
https://buff.ly/3D8QirS
https://buff.ly/3D8QirS
February 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
OPINION: "For every 100 low-income families in Mississippi, only 60 affordable-housing units are available," Maisie Brown writes.
https://buff.ly/3D8QirS
https://buff.ly/3D8QirS
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The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion...
The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.
The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.
Multimillion-dollar Biden-era COVID-19 vax project halted by Trump’s HHS
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. paused a $240 million contract to create a new coronavirus vaccine.
www.aol.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion...
The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.
The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.
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New: DOGE has gained access to a Department of Housing and Urban Development system containing confidential personal information about hundreds of thousands of alleged victims of housing discrimination. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details — Even Domestic Violence
While some agencies have resisted efforts by Elon Musk’s team to access confidential records, HUD has opened the door. The potential harm to privacy could be significant.
www.propublica.org
February 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
New: DOGE has gained access to a Department of Housing and Urban Development system containing confidential personal information about hundreds of thousands of alleged victims of housing discrimination. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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Donald Trump has frozen the US law banning bribery of and by foreign officials.
The order puts in place a 180-day "pause" to all investigations under the FCPA, no new ones can be opened during that period, it will also halt other Justice Department "actions.”
#SpookyConnections #3E #EndImpunity
The order puts in place a 180-day "pause" to all investigations under the FCPA, no new ones can be opened during that period, it will also halt other Justice Department "actions.”
#SpookyConnections #3E #EndImpunity
Trump freezes U.S. law banning bribery of foreign officials
Although President Trump can't overturn the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, experts say he can change how it is enforced.
www.cbsnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Donald Trump has frozen the US law banning bribery of and by foreign officials.
The order puts in place a 180-day "pause" to all investigations under the FCPA, no new ones can be opened during that period, it will also halt other Justice Department "actions.”
#SpookyConnections #3E #EndImpunity
The order puts in place a 180-day "pause" to all investigations under the FCPA, no new ones can be opened during that period, it will also halt other Justice Department "actions.”
#SpookyConnections #3E #EndImpunity