Rev. Sarah Millspaugh
@revsarahgm.bsky.social
Unitarian Universalist minister & ethnically Jewish person fighting for the human rights and dignity of ALL. California-based.
World AIDS Day 🧵… the tragedy of HIV/AIDS became even more tragic this year because of the authoritarian “let them die” callousness of DOGE and Trump. 💔💔💔
A mentor-to-be of mine (Philip Yenawine) created A Day Without Art as part of the Visual AIDS collective in 1989. A day to honor the loss of brilliance as a result of the epidemic. 1/x
This year, Trump cancelled recognition of World AIDS Day, today, & cuts to funding worldwide have consequences.
This year, Trump cancelled recognition of World AIDS Day, today, & cuts to funding worldwide have consequences.
December 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
World AIDS Day 🧵… the tragedy of HIV/AIDS became even more tragic this year because of the authoritarian “let them die” callousness of DOGE and Trump. 💔💔💔
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Relevant felony offense found in 18 U.S. Code § 2441 - War crimes. Also see former JAG working group memo from Nov. 29, 2025 below
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December 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Relevant felony offense found in 18 U.S. Code § 2441 - War crimes. Also see former JAG working group memo from Nov. 29, 2025 below
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
The most dangerous white supremacist.
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The most dangerous white supremacist.
Sickening hypocrisy. *The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine* www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Sickening hypocrisy. *The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine* www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
They are BRAZEN in their hypocrisy. 🤯 Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
They are BRAZEN in their hypocrisy. 🤯 Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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This is exactly right
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is exactly right
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
Thread. 🧵
A Thursday in U.S. courts
1) "This Court has grave concerns about the government’s apparent willingness to disregard this Court’s orders, even after previous admonition."
- Judge Stephanie. Gallagher, Trump appointee, Nov. 20, 2025
1) "This Court has grave concerns about the government’s apparent willingness to disregard this Court’s orders, even after previous admonition."
- Judge Stephanie. Gallagher, Trump appointee, Nov. 20, 2025
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Thread. 🧵
This administration only supports religious faith when it fits neatly into their authoritarian plans. Cheering on these faith groups in their cases (as well as the big immigration enforcement one my faith is part of!)
NEW from me: Catholic clergy, nuns sue Trump admin over Communion access for ICE detainees.
All told, more than 60 religious groups/denominations and ~10 religious professionals have sued the Trump admin this year. This lawsuit adds one more group, four more clergy. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
All told, more than 60 religious groups/denominations and ~10 religious professionals have sued the Trump admin this year. This lawsuit adds one more group, four more clergy. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
Catholic clergy, nuns sue Trump admin over Communion access for ICE detainees
(RNS) — ‘The Catholic Church recognizes service to people on the margins as corporal works of mercy that are cornerstones of Christianity,’ the legal complaint reads.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This administration only supports religious faith when it fits neatly into their authoritarian plans. Cheering on these faith groups in their cases (as well as the big immigration enforcement one my faith is part of!)
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BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...
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UU President Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt joins faith leaders across traditions in proclaiming: transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people are holy, whole, and worthy of love. Together, we call out the misuse of religion to justify harm.
www.uuworld.org/articles/uua...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
UU President Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt joins faith leaders across traditions in proclaiming: transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people are holy, whole, and worthy of love. Together, we call out the misuse of religion to justify harm.
www.uuworld.org/articles/uua...
www.uuworld.org/articles/uua...
Transgender people and intersex people are beloved children of God. And don't just take my word for it, take all these Christian, Jewish, and Unitarian Universalist religious groups' word for it. People who use religion to scapegoat and oppress folks are missing the whole point of their faith.
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Transgender people and intersex people are beloved children of God. And don't just take my word for it, take all these Christian, Jewish, and Unitarian Universalist religious groups' word for it. People who use religion to scapegoat and oppress folks are missing the whole point of their faith.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I met Larry Summers when he was president of Harvard and he struck me as a socially inept, disrespectful toad of a person That was before he went on about women being worse at math and science and got pushed out by the faculty.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I met Larry Summers when he was president of Harvard and he struck me as a socially inept, disrespectful toad of a person That was before he went on about women being worse at math and science and got pushed out by the faculty.
I’m with my Jewish cousins in New York City—we’re all cheering! Mazel Tov to Mamdani, DSA, and NYC! 🍎🗽
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social knows that safety for any of us depends on safety for all of us.
He will fight antisemitism, anti-Muslim bigotry, and all forms of bigotry.
Our futures are intertwined.
Mazel tov, Mayor Mamdani.
He will fight antisemitism, anti-Muslim bigotry, and all forms of bigotry.
Our futures are intertwined.
Mazel tov, Mayor Mamdani.
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I’m with my Jewish cousins in New York City—we’re all cheering! Mazel Tov to Mamdani, DSA, and NYC! 🍎🗽
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The Heritage Foundation, which staffs the current presidential administration and wrote its agenda, spent this past week defending Tucker Carlson’s decision to mainstream actual Nazis.
Also this week, a thousand rabbis told me Zohran Mamdani is the greatest threat to my safety as an American Jew.
Also this week, a thousand rabbis told me Zohran Mamdani is the greatest threat to my safety as an American Jew.
Again, this is the degrees of separation: Fuentes is a Nazi. Carlson hosts Fuentes and takes him seriously. Roberts defends Carlson. J.D. Vance, Vice President of the United States, wrote the foreword to Roberts’s book.
Nazism is officially a welcome option in the Republican Party.
Nazism is officially a welcome option in the Republican Party.
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts stands by Tucker Carlson after the former Fox News host release his controversial interview with Nick Fuentes.
"The Heritage Foundation didn't become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people" x.com/KevinRoberts...
"The Heritage Foundation didn't become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people" x.com/KevinRoberts...
October 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The Heritage Foundation, which staffs the current presidential administration and wrote its agenda, spent this past week defending Tucker Carlson’s decision to mainstream actual Nazis.
Also this week, a thousand rabbis told me Zohran Mamdani is the greatest threat to my safety as an American Jew.
Also this week, a thousand rabbis told me Zohran Mamdani is the greatest threat to my safety as an American Jew.
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva — because her vote could force the House to release the Epstein Files. The GOP is doing everything they can to keep Trump's Epstein cover-up going.
October 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva — because her vote could force the House to release the Epstein Files. The GOP is doing everything they can to keep Trump's Epstein cover-up going.