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Advocate | Abolitionist | Anti-Zionist | Adoptee | Attorney (IP & FOIL/FOIA) #FreeThemAll #FTP #FreePalestine // she/they
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mrscrabapple.bsky.social
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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alexzucker.bsky.social
Hi, all. I'm just a couple hundred dollars away from my fundraising goal, and the @justicecommittee.bsky.social gala is tonight!

Can you give $10? $20? $50?

We can't have a better NYC without grassroots organizing like JC's to resist criminalization and build power for the people.
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
NYC fam, pls get to the polls. Stop Cuomo.
janus.bsky.social The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · Oct 27
i hate to be that bitch, but my sources are telling me this early voting data has gotten Zohran's people rightly spooked and y'all better stop assuming this one's in the bag. GOTV
Voter turnout surges in NYC mayor’s race, with Boomers and Gen X leading the charge
The data so far is good news for independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, a political scientist said.
gothamist.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
Jamaican orgs:

bsky.app/profile/beeq...
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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calypseaux.bsky.social
I’ll be watching, helpless, as Hurricane Melissa strengthens and expands in severity with Jamaica in her path.
If you’re interested in donating to a legitimate organization that does real good, please consider Food For the Poor’s Hurricane Relief Fund: foodforthepoorja.org/donations.php
Splash screen on www.foodforthepoorja.org website that says “FFTP Food For the Poor Hurricane Relief Fund Donate Now.”
October 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
mjwilliams.bsky.social
Tonight, Prof Rashid Khalidi spoke at length, with passion and hope, about a legal decision issued last week bc it brilliantly dismantles every repressive argument deployed by universities + the feds against the Palestine solidarity movement.

So you get a link: www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
www.ca1.uscourts.gov
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in: - Los Angeles - Phoenix - Philadelphia - Denver - El Paso - San Diego - Seattle/Portland - New Orleans Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both. Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed. Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino. ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year. I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations. I am hearing from both sides of this friction. One senior DHS official tells me: "ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?". Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me: "What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table." It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there. Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results. Official statement to @FoxNews via @TriciaOhio : "While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country." 7:57 PM · Oct 27, 2025 · 29.6K Views
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Made a similar point last week that you can make extra meals and let neighbors know that they will be available at your door at a particular date and time... Put up a flier in your building.
remorahousedc.bsky.social Remora House DC ❄️ @remorahousedc.bsky.social · Oct 27
You can cook food for your neighbors. Set a free pantry box outside of your place. Pool money with your coworkers if someone at work has young kids or an elderly relative that likely has SNAP.

You don’t have to pry into people’s business, you can just do things & make it known help is available.
October 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
mjwilliams.bsky.social
Within hours, Gov. Hochul vetoed a bill to fix NY's Freedom of Information Law. Truly shameful.

Read @reinventalbany.bsky.social's response: reinventalbany.org/2025/10/hoch...
October 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
mjwilliams.bsky.social
New York Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) is broken. A bill to fix it just landed on Gov. Hochul's desk.

Gov. Hochul: NY needs you to sign S2520-B into law. ✍️

Details in posts ⬇️. Thank you @reinventalbany.bsky.social for organizing efforts to end crushing delays in responses to FOIL requests.
reinventalbany.bsky.social Reinvent Albany @reinventalbany.bsky.social · Oct 9
🚨Transparency Boosting Bill on Hochul's Desk🚨

S2520-B/A3425-A by @jamesskoufis.bsky.social and Steven Raga is the most significant improvement to the Freedom of Information Law in years & would shorten the time the public waits for records. Governor Hochul should sign it.
October 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
mskellymhayes.bsky.social Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Oct 2
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG
September 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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mattshuham.bsky.social
Here's our full report:
>> Dozens Arrested Protesting New York Democrats’ Support Of Arming Israel

www.huffpost.com/entry/protes...
August 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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jamellebouie.net
this is an explicitly white nationalist administration in a way that even woodrow wilson shied away from www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans
In early July, the top official at the U.S. embassy in South Africa reached out to Washington asking for clarification on a contentious U.S. policy: could non-whites apply for a refugee program geared toward white South Africans if they met other requirements?
www.reuters.com
July 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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thenyic.bsky.social
🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.
July 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
mjwilliams.bsky.social
prospect.org/justice/2025... - reporting by @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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jehadabusalim.bsky.social
ISRAEL MURDERED 114 PALESTINIANS IN GAZA TODAY
July 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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awinston.bsky.social
The first such system was pioneered in Fallujah during the American occupation and siege over 20 years ago

Here’s that boomerang again
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Jun 26
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
www.404media.co
June 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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aljazeera.com
Israeli forces arrested Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' in the occupied West Bank after settlers beat and injured him, according to his colleague
‘No Other Land’ co-director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
The film is an Oscar-winning documentary collaboration by Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers.
aje.io
March 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
All of the myths and fantasies we’re hearing about protesters being terrorists, immigrants invading & fentanyl being a WMD should be understood in the context of a pending report from the DOD & DHS (due April 20) about whether Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act. These people want martial law.
March 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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maris.bsky.social
Fuck this and all of the institutions caving in with not even a hint of a fight.
hellgatenyc.com Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · Feb 1
NYU-Langone is cancelling appointments for gender-affirming care for young trans people, parents say. The cancellations come after Trump's order directing institutions that receive federal funding to end gender-affirming care for patients under 19. hellgatenyc.com/nyu-langone-...
NYU-Langone Is Cancelling Gender-Affirming Care Appointments for Trans Kids, Parents Say
The cancellations come on the heels of an executive order signed by President Trump directing institutions that receive federal funding to end gender-affirming care for patients under the age of 19.
hellgatenyc.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM