notpenelope.bsky.social
@notpenelope.bsky.social
Labor lawyer, former federal worker, and another blue dot in the vast red state of Texas.
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Hot off the press! Out Oct 16, featuring two new chapters, Against the Romance of Police Reform and Futures Beyond Policing. Hoping this study of anti-Black criminalization is helpful as we face the rise in fascistic authoritarian rule, and the policing used to enforce and enable it.
September 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I'm relieved the NYT called Trump out on this unsanctioned killing of 11 people. His claims to power grow ever more extreme. And who can sue on their behalf?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...
Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I couldn't despise someone much more than I do the Orange Menace. It's like he's figured out all the ways to hurt the poor and has taken a knife to them. What a sick mother.
August 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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August 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Donald will lose his shit if you repost this.
August 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Down at the cussin' pond nsfw content. Scott Bessent admits they intend to privatize social security.
July 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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The former Attorney General of Israel, Michael Benyair is now calling Israel's actions in Gaza genocide.

"To eternal shame. Jews, who suffered a genocide 80 years ago, are committing genocide in Gaza. Shame, rage, and sorrow"
July 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Does Trump's reaction to the Epstein investigation remind anyone else of Poe's "The Telltale Heart"?
July 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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JUST IN: Our client and a fmr. DOJ attorney has lawfully disclosed evidence that supports Erez Reuveni's allegations regarding Emil Bove and other senior DOJ officials actively and deliberately undermining the rule of law.

whistlebloweraid.org/whistleblowe...
Whistleblower Aid client and former DOJ attorney corroborates the thrust of the allegations against Emil Bove  - Whistleblower Aid
WASHINGTON, JULY 25, 2025 - A Whistleblower Aid client and a former Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney has lawfully disclosed evidence to the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General that corroborates ...
whistlebloweraid.org
July 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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There are so many YouTubers who punch above their weight (subscriber-wise).

@brittanyepage.bsky.social is one of them.

Watch this video FILLED WITH RECEIPTS & CITATION covering how sadistic Donald Trump is treating Americans who are poor, homeless, and mentally ill.

Watch & share!
Donald Trump Signs Executive Order AUTHORIZING MASS DETENTION OF AMERICAN CITIZENS!!!
YouTube video by Brittany Page
youtu.be
July 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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🔥 TX STATE REP. @jamestalarico.bsky.social: “The only minority destroying America are the billionaires… we are focused on the wrong 1%.”
July 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
@50501volusia.org Please remove me from your email list. I don't know how I got on it. I do not live in Florida. The email address to delete is amelinaraab@gmail.com.

Thank you.
July 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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I work at a library and there's this family that uses our computers to send money to their loved one in prison. If they have $30 to send, their loved one gets $21.05 and the prison profiteers get $8.95 in fees. Kills me every time
July 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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NEW:
@betoorourke.bsky.social
in an interview with The Bulwark urges
Gavin Newsom not to wait for Texas to redistrict but to go first. "We know the end of this movie. if we wait and watch and respond, it might be too late."

www.thebulwark.com/p/beto-orour...
Beto O'Rourke: We Need to Stop Waiting and Strike First
Sam Stein sits down with Beto O'Rourke for a VERY blunt conversation about the state of American democracy.
www.thebulwark.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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UH Medicare supplemental insurance
was $279/month. I got the same policy from Mutual of Omaha for $119.00.
UnitedHealthcare is raising premiums for policyholders in New York and Washington after spending $9B on stock buybacks last year.

Healthcare companies are robbing you blind to enrich their executives and shareholders.

This is why we need Medicare for All.
Health Insurers Are Hiking Premiums as Their Profits Balloon
The US’s six largest health insurers reported massive profits last year, doling out billions on stock buybacks and divid
jacobin.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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We’re not at Trump’s mercy. A country with 340M people can only fail if we allow it. If we organize, protest, donate, speak out, vote, demand more from our gov and make good trouble, we’ll be okay. I think the entire U.S. media needs to spend an afternoon in the African American History Museum tbh.
July 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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July 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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He forgot to mention the Los Angeles Dodgers.

www.axios.com/2025/07/02/s... Stephen Miller-backed group files complaint against Dodgers over DEI
Stephen Miller-backed group files complaint against Dodgers over DEI
The move comes as the Dodgers commit to $1 million to help immigrants in raids.
www.axios.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Trump Threatens Rosie O’Donnell
July 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The below was my experience too. My parents took us to Italy to spend time with our Italian family, where I learned that there are simply too many ways to do any one thing for any one country to have a hammerlock on "best way." No nation is "the best." Except gelato is the best ice cream!
This guy really doesn’t understand immigrant communities. For many of us our parents made sure we saw their home country. It’s a right of passage and connects the fragmented lines of our lineages and ancestors cut by emigration.
It most certainly is not “a vacation”
July 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM