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Antonio M Ginatta
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American. Ecuatoriano. Cascadian. Globalist. Air respects no borders. Incrementalist. Policy Director, Columbia Legal Services (WA).
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dell.bsky.social
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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swamplizard.bsky.social
future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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silkyweineck.bsky.social
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
wrote about last week's super interesting tribal sovereignty decision in Washington Supreme Court

one justice wrote a standalone concurrence basically saying 'the court applied the law correctly, but also the law is terrible and it's our responsibility to say so'
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
A Washington State Supreme Court Justice Condemns Federal Indian Law as Racist and Awful
"Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism, even if just in a footnote."
ballsandstrikes.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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megateer.bsky.social
It really is a Matthew 25 moment. What choices are we going to make each day when we encounter people who need us?
October 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky. Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation. Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy. A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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samadams.bsky.social
congrats to Nobel Peace Prize winner Portland Frog
October 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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agdanrayfield.bsky.social
BREAKING NEWS: Oregon sues Trump administration over unlawful federalization of National Guard. Read more.
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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nerd4cities.bsky.social
Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland
Hollywood farmers market
September 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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ryanjhaas.bsky.social
Currently a 25-minute wait for brunch in the crime-ridden hellhole of Portland.
September 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
/5 The concept is sometimes known as “jawboning” — government actors talking to private actors to influence, or coerce, them into censoring speech. This was famously and controversially litigated over the Biden administration’s responses to posts about COVID and other issues on social media…
September 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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whetmoser.com
weren’t we just lecturing europeans about this
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 16
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."
September 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Mamdani is a citizen just like Vance. He no more owes "gratitude" to the US than does anyone else. The suggestion is that he is some kind of second-class citizen who owes deference to the country and those born here - exactly the kind of blood-and-soil nationalism that Vance so often promotes.
the-independent.com The Independent @the-independent.com · Aug 29
Vance goes after NYC mayoral hopeful Mamdani: ‘He should show more gratitude to the United States’
Vance goes after NYC mayor hopeful Mamdani for not showing ‘gratitude’ to the US
www.independent.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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ajaxsinger.bsky.social
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
www.seattletimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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tlecaque.bsky.social
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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finchfrii.bsky.social
WA’s largest state agency laid off an independent investigator shortly after she delivered a report noting that people under state care in civil commitment were denied critical medical care
‘Fox in the hen house’: After a critical report, McNeil Island CEO and watchdog removed
Some Special Commitment Center residents went months without medical care, an internal report found. Since then, the CEO was replaced, the ombuds was laid off, and the medical director resigned.
www.seattletimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
amginatta.bsky.social
Healthcare is just a different animal than welfare/TANF/cash benefits. We don't want to punish people with getting sick or dying. The same tired talking points don't apply.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Aug 5
GOP Rep. Mike Flood at a town hall: "Do you think that people who are 28-years-old, that can work, & refuse to work, should get free healthcare?"

Crowd: "YESSSSSSSSSS!"
August 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
amginatta.bsky.social
#WAleg has passed two separate bills to ensure the state has oversight of the detention center for serious health violations. Tuberculosis outbreak checks all the boxes. So why is DOH just directing inquiries to ICE? Why is DOH not taking action?
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Aug 1
ICE detention facilities violate basic civil rights, but they also pose a threat to public health.

At least 7 confirmed cases of tuberculosis have been discovered at an ICE facility in Tacoma.

One of the confirmed cases had been transferred to Alaska, where the ACLU has reported 35 cases
Seven suspected tuberculosis cases at Tacoma ICE processing facility
The KING 5 Investigators discovered seven suspected cases of TB at the Northwest ICE Processing Center, confirmed by the Washington State Department of Health.
www.king5.com
August 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
amginatta.bsky.social
September job report: bigly job gains, some people say the most jobs ever gained
August 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social
When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
amginatta.bsky.social
A textbook example of how the excesses of immigration enforcement harm US citizens, their families, and their communities.

washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/14/a...
After a child care worker is detained by ICE, a community is left reeling • Washington State Standard
Nicolle Orozco Forero was one of the few immigrant women who provide child care for American children with disabilities. Then she and her seriously ill son were taken into ICE custody.
washingtonstatestandard.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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murray.senate.gov
If a bill is so bad that you have to exempt entire states from its consequences to win the votes you need—just don't pass the bill!

Why do people in Washington state deserve Medicaid & SNAP cuts, but others don't?

This is plain wrong, and it's just no way to legislate.
July 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
amginatta.bsky.social
so much money in a moment of such inequality
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · Jun 29
Zohran Mamdani says that he doesn't believe billionaires should exist in an interview with 'Meet the Press.'

"Frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality, and ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country."
Zohran Mamdani says 'I don't think we should have billionaires'
Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee to be the next mayor of New York City and a self-identified Democratic socialist, on Sunday said billionaires contribute to inequality.
nbcnews.to
June 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM