Britt Dorton (she/her)
@brittdorton.bsky.social
The things that make you different are the things that make you powerful. ✨
Michigan Law JD shouting into the void about disability justice, abolition, and medical anthropology.
Michigan Law JD shouting into the void about disability justice, abolition, and medical anthropology.
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Brutal stuff from @swin24.bsky.social on the former children's hospital chaplain whose friends says he's been "tortured" in isolation as the Trump administration tries to deport him
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Jailed by Trump's ICE, Children's Hospital Chaplain Was Thrown Into 'Solitary'
Ayman Soliman, a former chaplain at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, was put in "solitary confinement" after being jailed by Donald Trump's ICE.
www.rollingstone.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Brutal stuff from @swin24.bsky.social on the former children's hospital chaplain whose friends says he's been "tortured" in isolation as the Trump administration tries to deport him
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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This is unreal: Houston just made it illegal "for any person to sit or lie down on a sidewalk or on a blanket, stool, or any other object placed upon a sidewalk."
Being unhoused in public is now a criminal offense.
Being unhoused in public is now a criminal offense.
NEW: Houston has made it illegal to sit or lie down on a sidewalk at any time. This is a 24/7 ban on trying to survive in public. It's not camping ban; it's a pure homeless ban.
We will never arrest our way out of homelessness. buff.ly/nH2VUqt
We will never arrest our way out of homelessness. buff.ly/nH2VUqt
§ 40-352. Sitting and lying down on sidewalks., Article XVI. SITTING AND LYING UPON PUBLIC SIDEWALKS, Chapter 40. STREETS AND SIDEWALKS, Code of Ordinances, Houston
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houston-tx.elaws.us
July 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This is unreal: Houston just made it illegal "for any person to sit or lie down on a sidewalk or on a blanket, stool, or any other object placed upon a sidewalk."
Being unhoused in public is now a criminal offense.
Being unhoused in public is now a criminal offense.
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Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
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Trump’s budget bill is a disaster for public health.
It’s the biggest cut to health care in history.
12 million people will lose health insurance.
Hundreds of hospitals will close.
1 in 4 nursing homes will close.
Millions more families won’t have enough food.
It’s the biggest cut to health care in history.
12 million people will lose health insurance.
Hundreds of hospitals will close.
1 in 4 nursing homes will close.
Millions more families won’t have enough food.
July 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Trump’s budget bill is a disaster for public health.
It’s the biggest cut to health care in history.
12 million people will lose health insurance.
Hundreds of hospitals will close.
1 in 4 nursing homes will close.
Millions more families won’t have enough food.
It’s the biggest cut to health care in history.
12 million people will lose health insurance.
Hundreds of hospitals will close.
1 in 4 nursing homes will close.
Millions more families won’t have enough food.
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Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class:
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
July 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class:
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
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This. Is. Nazism.
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
July 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This. Is. Nazism.
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👀The House bill cut Medicaid by $800-863 billion and now the Senate bill as we expected is worse.
CBO preliminary score for Senate bill is up to $930 billion in Medicaid cuts.
CBO preliminary score for Senate bill is up to $930 billion in Medicaid cuts.
Senator Wyden, ranking Democrat, reports preliminary CBO scores of $930B/10 years in #Medicaid cuts, under Senate reconciliation bill: www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft
www.finance.senate.gov
June 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
👀The House bill cut Medicaid by $800-863 billion and now the Senate bill as we expected is worse.
CBO preliminary score for Senate bill is up to $930 billion in Medicaid cuts.
CBO preliminary score for Senate bill is up to $930 billion in Medicaid cuts.
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Like this is your time...
I am looking for & to the radicals who understand the law and understand how to subvert it.
June 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Like this is your time...
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Yesterday, more than 50 people were arrested by Capitol police for protesting the proposed cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential lifelines. These cuts will cause immense harm to disabled and multiply marginalized people. Among those arrested was our Governmental Affairs Liaison, Carol.
June 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Yesterday, more than 50 people were arrested by Capitol police for protesting the proposed cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential lifelines. These cuts will cause immense harm to disabled and multiply marginalized people. Among those arrested was our Governmental Affairs Liaison, Carol.
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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...
theonion.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
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These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
June 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.
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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
June 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
UMich spent over $800,000 to harass and stalk its own students who have bravely spoken up for human rights.
All of this is egregious. Including the hired spy pretending to be Deaf (and nonsense "signing") before using disability as an insult two seconds later.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
All of this is egregious. Including the hired spy pretending to be Deaf (and nonsense "signing") before using disability as an insult two seconds later.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters
Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
UMich spent over $800,000 to harass and stalk its own students who have bravely spoken up for human rights.
All of this is egregious. Including the hired spy pretending to be Deaf (and nonsense "signing") before using disability as an insult two seconds later.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
All of this is egregious. Including the hired spy pretending to be Deaf (and nonsense "signing") before using disability as an insult two seconds later.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
Incredible schadenfreude in Ann Arbor tonight.
June 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Incredible schadenfreude in Ann Arbor tonight.
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If someone were coming up with a dastardly plan to weaken our pandemic preparedness, they could hardly do better than RFK is doing.
HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m... via @statnews.com
HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m... via @statnews.com
HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.
www.statnews.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
If someone were coming up with a dastardly plan to weaken our pandemic preparedness, they could hardly do better than RFK is doing.
HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m... via @statnews.com
HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m... via @statnews.com
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May 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Medicaid, the public insurance program that covers more than 70 million low-income and disabled Americans, is saving people's lives.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
New studies show what's at stake if Medicaid is scaled back
Researchers studied the health care program's effect on the health of millions of Americans and found tens of thousands of lives were saved.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Medicaid, the public insurance program that covers more than 70 million low-income and disabled Americans, is saving people's lives.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
It was a gift to be asked to speak at graduation. The things that make you different are the things that make you powerful, and i am forever a different person because of Michigan Law.
“Now more than ever, we must embrace what sets us apart and celebrate those differences in one another. I have faith that we will do so, because from here on out one of the things that makes us different is our distinction as an alumnus of Michigan Law.”
michigan.law.umich.edu/news/class-2...
michigan.law.umich.edu/news/class-2...
Class of 2025 Celebrates Senior Day | University of Michigan Law School
A classically trained chef, a Broadway musician, a paralegal, and a teacher. These are just a few of the students from various walks of life who came to Michigan Law three years ago to begin their stu...
michigan.law.umich.edu
May 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It was a gift to be asked to speak at graduation. The things that make you different are the things that make you powerful, and i am forever a different person because of Michigan Law.
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His student visa was suddenly revoked but he wasn’t notified—“they don’t want ICE to lose the advantage of surprise” (!!!)—and four days later he was arrested at the hospital where he works.
Indonesian man details surprise ICE arrest in Minnesota hospital
Critics condemn the “silent” nature of his arrest as part of an aggressive new trend in immigration enforcement.
www.startribune.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
His student visa was suddenly revoked but he wasn’t notified—“they don’t want ICE to lose the advantage of surprise” (!!!)—and four days later he was arrested at the hospital where he works.
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NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts
Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
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judge allows the Trump administration to require undocumented immigrants to put their names in the Kidnapping Registry
BREAKING: Federal judge allows the Trump administration to require everyone in the U.S. illegally to register with the federal government.
Judge allows requirement that everyone in the US illegally must register to move forward
A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with a requirement that everyone in the U.S. illegally must register with the federal government.
bit.ly
April 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
judge allows the Trump administration to require undocumented immigrants to put their names in the Kidnapping Registry
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The New Jersey Democrat held the Senate floor for over 24 hours, toppling a record set decades ago by segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond.
Cory Booker Breaks Record For Longest Senate Speech Opposing Trump Policies
The New Jersey Democrat held the Senate floor for over 24 hours, toppling a record set decades ago by segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond.
www.huffpost.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The New Jersey Democrat held the Senate floor for over 24 hours, toppling a record set decades ago by segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond.