RHAvote
@rhavote.bsky.social
Hi, I’m Erika (she/her) 👋
Later abortion patient advocate and Co-Director of Patient Forward
WhoNotWhen.com
AbortionJusticeNow.com
Later abortion patient advocate and Co-Director of Patient Forward
WhoNotWhen.com
AbortionJusticeNow.com
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I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
January 22, 2026 at 12:48 PM
I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
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Part of the issue is that those most actively protesting and leading mutual aid are women and gender non-conforming people. Both groups are illegible to many as protesters. This helps explain the invisibilization of current protests and resistance.
January 21, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Part of the issue is that those most actively protesting and leading mutual aid are women and gender non-conforming people. Both groups are illegible to many as protesters. This helps explain the invisibilization of current protests and resistance.
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Democratic party: we must spend billions to find out what the people want.
The people: (loudly and clearly, through the very process the Democratic Party set up) We want this.
Democratic party: we must spend billions to fight this.
The people: (loudly and clearly, through the very process the Democratic Party set up) We want this.
Democratic party: we must spend billions to fight this.
June 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Democratic party: we must spend billions to find out what the people want.
The people: (loudly and clearly, through the very process the Democratic Party set up) We want this.
Democratic party: we must spend billions to fight this.
The people: (loudly and clearly, through the very process the Democratic Party set up) We want this.
Democratic party: we must spend billions to fight this.
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"Neighbors in neon vests dot the neighborhood... Information-sharing networks have been built. Residents have connected with non-profits and churches to deliver food to people who are locked in their homes out of fear. Resistance signs are everywhere..."
www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...
So, How’s the Occupation Going for You?
What’s it like to live in America with a domestic military occupation? Minnesota has the answer.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 17, 2026 at 11:31 PM
"Neighbors in neon vests dot the neighborhood... Information-sharing networks have been built. Residents have connected with non-profits and churches to deliver food to people who are locked in their homes out of fear. Resistance signs are everywhere..."
www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...
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Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.
January 17, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.
I grew up 30m from Harper’s Ferry yet we never learned about John Brown in school. This obviously wasn’t an ignorant oversight.
Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time.
Time to claim your true history.
Time to claim your true history.
January 17, 2026 at 7:45 PM
I grew up 30m from Harper’s Ferry yet we never learned about John Brown in school. This obviously wasn’t an ignorant oversight.
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This is the best addition to our meme arsenal since like the Elmo fire
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 AM
This is the best addition to our meme arsenal since like the Elmo fire
Feel this in my soul! Once you start lobbying lawmakers it becomes clear pretty quickly how many of them hate us.
I’m starting to wonder if looking genuinely happy and acting like you really love the city is a more effective way to campaign (and govern) than scowling about what a shithole the city is and how many more cops it will take to subdue it.
Outside Gracie Mansion. This is his job. But dare I day it he seems genuinely affected and happy to be there. There’s potentially immense power in that.
January 17, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Feel this in my soul! Once you start lobbying lawmakers it becomes clear pretty quickly how many of them hate us.
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These are prisons.
The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here.
This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.
The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here.
This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
These are prisons.
The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here.
This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.
The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here.
This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.
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i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
January 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
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I wrote a quick blog post in 2014 titled "police reforms you should always oppose." It went viral and became the basis of a chart created by Critical Resistance to evaluate abolitionist steps. Money for training and body cams were the first two on my list.
January 16, 2026 at 8:20 PM
I wrote a quick blog post in 2014 titled "police reforms you should always oppose." It went viral and became the basis of a chart created by Critical Resistance to evaluate abolitionist steps. Money for training and body cams were the first two on my list.
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You aren't actually overreacting other people are sleepwalking.
January 15, 2026 at 10:39 PM
You aren't actually overreacting other people are sleepwalking.
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I am reminded of one of my favourite June Jordan poems! 🫂
December 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I am reminded of one of my favourite June Jordan poems! 🫂
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the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
January 15, 2026 at 1:19 AM
the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
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hey, elected officials? nobody who says anything like revamp or reform or rehabilitate or retrain ICE has my vote. i don't want ICE 2.0. i don't want "hurt and terrorize and murder and abduct my neighbors but in a more socially acceptable way." get them fucking gone and maybe we'll talk
January 14, 2026 at 1:27 AM
hey, elected officials? nobody who says anything like revamp or reform or rehabilitate or retrain ICE has my vote. i don't want ICE 2.0. i don't want "hurt and terrorize and murder and abduct my neighbors but in a more socially acceptable way." get them fucking gone and maybe we'll talk
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The Right: "Abolish the Department of Education, the Department of Health next, maybe the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau too"
Highly-Paid Political Pundits: "I think we should hear out their arguments"
The Left: "Abolish ICE"
Pundits: "Thar is a completely unreasonable political position"
Highly-Paid Political Pundits: "I think we should hear out their arguments"
The Left: "Abolish ICE"
Pundits: "Thar is a completely unreasonable political position"
January 14, 2026 at 4:32 AM
The Right: "Abolish the Department of Education, the Department of Health next, maybe the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau too"
Highly-Paid Political Pundits: "I think we should hear out their arguments"
The Left: "Abolish ICE"
Pundits: "Thar is a completely unreasonable political position"
Highly-Paid Political Pundits: "I think we should hear out their arguments"
The Left: "Abolish ICE"
Pundits: "Thar is a completely unreasonable political position"
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I cannot emphasize enough the absolutely seismic nature of the shift between “children are what happens to you, especially if you get married” and “you can choose whether, when, and with whom to have children”
January 13, 2026 at 8:40 PM
I cannot emphasize enough the absolutely seismic nature of the shift between “children are what happens to you, especially if you get married” and “you can choose whether, when, and with whom to have children”
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I will donate to the primary challenger of any/every Democrat who votes to fund this authoritarian government.
January 13, 2026 at 9:23 PM
I will donate to the primary challenger of any/every Democrat who votes to fund this authoritarian government.
In the interest of celebrating small wins, I actually canceled an automatically renewing app subscription I don’t use. Please clap!
January 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
In the interest of celebrating small wins, I actually canceled an automatically renewing app subscription I don’t use. Please clap!
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I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing
January 13, 2026 at 4:08 AM
I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing
PERIOD.
The problem with ICE is not insufficient training or even training content.
It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.
It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.
January 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM
PERIOD.
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Not just the encampments. People like Kristof admire the protests that happen ELSEWHERE. They critique those that happen where they live. This is a feature not a bug.
I’m old enough to remember the anti-genocide encampments y’all defamed.
January 11, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Not just the encampments. People like Kristof admire the protests that happen ELSEWHERE. They critique those that happen where they live. This is a feature not a bug.
And around and around we go.
Chris Murphy: "It's reasonable for Democrats, speaking on behalf of the majority of the American public who don't approve of what ICE is doing, to say, 'If you want to fund DHS, I want to fund a DHS that is operating in a safe and legal manner.'"
January 11, 2026 at 3:55 PM
And around and around we go.