Courtney Wilkes
@caw2146.bsky.social
Consumer Protection Attorney @ Tzedek DC. Views are my own. She/her.
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⚠️ DC CONSUMER ALERT ⚠️
Sophisticated thieves are draining gift cards of their value before you even buy them at the store.
With the holiday season coming up, DC residents should be on the lookout for gift card scams and take steps to prevent them.
Protect yourself from gift card scams:
Sophisticated thieves are draining gift cards of their value before you even buy them at the store.
With the holiday season coming up, DC residents should be on the lookout for gift card scams and take steps to prevent them.
Protect yourself from gift card scams:
December 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
⚠️ DC CONSUMER ALERT ⚠️
Sophisticated thieves are draining gift cards of their value before you even buy them at the store.
With the holiday season coming up, DC residents should be on the lookout for gift card scams and take steps to prevent them.
Protect yourself from gift card scams:
Sophisticated thieves are draining gift cards of their value before you even buy them at the store.
With the holiday season coming up, DC residents should be on the lookout for gift card scams and take steps to prevent them.
Protect yourself from gift card scams:
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There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.
*If all goes by the regular schedule
*If all goes by the regular schedule
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.
*If all goes by the regular schedule
*If all goes by the regular schedule
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🚨🚨 While you were sleeping, ALL Republicans except Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01) voted Yes on the rule to proceed to HR 1.
Leader Jeffries is now using his final "Magic Minute" speech to delay the final passage vote.
Use these final few hours to FLOOD THE PHONES! 🔥📞🔥 > 5calls.org/issue/hr1-on...
Leader Jeffries is now using his final "Magic Minute" speech to delay the final passage vote.
Use these final few hours to FLOOD THE PHONES! 🔥📞🔥 > 5calls.org/issue/hr1-on...
July 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🚨🚨 While you were sleeping, ALL Republicans except Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01) voted Yes on the rule to proceed to HR 1.
Leader Jeffries is now using his final "Magic Minute" speech to delay the final passage vote.
Use these final few hours to FLOOD THE PHONES! 🔥📞🔥 > 5calls.org/issue/hr1-on...
Leader Jeffries is now using his final "Magic Minute" speech to delay the final passage vote.
Use these final few hours to FLOOD THE PHONES! 🔥📞🔥 > 5calls.org/issue/hr1-on...
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🚨THERE IS STILL TIME TO PROTECT DC SANCTUARY LAWS. Yesterday, Congress betrayed DC and passed two bills that will overturn DC laws. Today, they are taking aim at our sanctuary laws. DC residents need your help to stop them!
Call & email your rep NOW: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Call & email your rep NOW: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress to Keep Their Hands Off DC’s Sanctuary Laws!
As the country watches LA bravely fight off ICE and the military, Congress is quietly attempting to strip away DC’s sanctuary laws that keep us safe. Since the residents of DC do not have representati...
actionnetwork.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🚨THERE IS STILL TIME TO PROTECT DC SANCTUARY LAWS. Yesterday, Congress betrayed DC and passed two bills that will overturn DC laws. Today, they are taking aim at our sanctuary laws. DC residents need your help to stop them!
Call & email your rep NOW: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Call & email your rep NOW: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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🧵 time!!!! This will be long so strap in!!! The TL;DR version is simple: if you are a naturalized citizen, you need to check your status at SSA immediately and if you aren’t listed as a citizen, you need to correct that. Immediately. Ok so here’s the news article we are discussing. Let’s go. 1/?
April 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🧵 time!!!! This will be long so strap in!!! The TL;DR version is simple: if you are a naturalized citizen, you need to check your status at SSA immediately and if you aren’t listed as a citizen, you need to correct that. Immediately. Ok so here’s the news article we are discussing. Let’s go. 1/?
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With the help of four Democrats, House Republicans just voted to pass H.R. 22 — one of the biggest threats to voting rights that we’ve seen in a generation. If you’re represented by Reps. Case (HI-01), Cuellar (TX-28), Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03), or Golden (ME-02), they need to hear from you today.
April 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
With the help of four Democrats, House Republicans just voted to pass H.R. 22 — one of the biggest threats to voting rights that we’ve seen in a generation. If you’re represented by Reps. Case (HI-01), Cuellar (TX-28), Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03), or Golden (ME-02), they need to hear from you today.
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Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true?
BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country
Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime?
BONDI: *leaves*
BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country
Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime?
BONDI: *leaves*
April 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true?
BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country
Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime?
BONDI: *leaves*
BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country
Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime?
BONDI: *leaves*
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🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
docs.google.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
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Under this theory, there is also nothing that prevents them from shipping *American citizens* to a gulag in El Salvador and saying "nothing we can do."
April 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Under this theory, there is also nothing that prevents them from shipping *American citizens* to a gulag in El Salvador and saying "nothing we can do."
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Hard to watch: @newsweek.com posted footage of masked ICE agents arresting 50-year-old grandmother Angela Gonzalez, who'd been here since she was 11. She had a pending VAWA application, but other than that, had no options for a green card since she got here too late for the Reagan amnesty.
April 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Hard to watch: @newsweek.com posted footage of masked ICE agents arresting 50-year-old grandmother Angela Gonzalez, who'd been here since she was 11. She had a pending VAWA application, but other than that, had no options for a green card since she got here too late for the Reagan amnesty.
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Choking, strangulation victims 750% more likely to be killed by abuser
Took Andrew Tate two weeks back in the US to commit a violent crime against a woman
www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/26/a...
Took Andrew Tate two weeks back in the US to commit a violent crime against a woman
www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/26/a...
Andrew Tate accused of violently attacking girlfriend during sex
Bri Stern has reportedly filed a sexual assault report linked to the alleged incident, in which she claims Tate violently choked her while they were having sex.
www.nydailynews.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Choking, strangulation victims 750% more likely to be killed by abuser
Took Andrew Tate two weeks back in the US to commit a violent crime against a woman
www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/26/a...
Took Andrew Tate two weeks back in the US to commit a violent crime against a woman
www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/26/a...
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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
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I could write up why there’s no constitutional problem with the President using an auto-pen to sign official documents—or I could just post the 30-page 2005 opinion by George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel that explains why in lots of detail.
I choose the latter:
www.justice.gov/file/494411/...
I choose the latter:
www.justice.gov/file/494411/...
March 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I could write up why there’s no constitutional problem with the President using an auto-pen to sign official documents—or I could just post the 30-page 2005 opinion by George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel that explains why in lots of detail.
I choose the latter:
www.justice.gov/file/494411/...
I choose the latter:
www.justice.gov/file/494411/...
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📢 SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, April 5.
Together with progressive partners, we’re planning a massive mobilization in the streets to translate the anger with Trump’s power grab into a nationwide show of defiance.
Find a Hands Off! event near you or plan one: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Together with progressive partners, we’re planning a massive mobilization in the streets to translate the anger with Trump’s power grab into a nationwide show of defiance.
Find a Hands Off! event near you or plan one: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
March 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
📢 SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, April 5.
Together with progressive partners, we’re planning a massive mobilization in the streets to translate the anger with Trump’s power grab into a nationwide show of defiance.
Find a Hands Off! event near you or plan one: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Together with progressive partners, we’re planning a massive mobilization in the streets to translate the anger with Trump’s power grab into a nationwide show of defiance.
Find a Hands Off! event near you or plan one: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred.
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
March 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred.
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
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If you missed this Business Insider article about the company tracking abortion pill prescriptions, fix that immediately. This is exactly the kind of reporting we need right now. www.businessinsider.com/abortion-med...
Abortion pill prescriptions are now being tracked in parts of the US — with help from a little-known tech company
Louisiana has started monitoring abortion pills. Some other states are likely to follow suit. It could have disastrous consequences for patients.
www.businessinsider.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If you missed this Business Insider article about the company tracking abortion pill prescriptions, fix that immediately. This is exactly the kind of reporting we need right now. www.businessinsider.com/abortion-med...
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No uniforms
No badges
No names
No warrant
No charges
Just guns and SUVs taking a man away while his pregnant wife says "my love, my love"
No badges
No names
No warrant
No charges
Just guns and SUVs taking a man away while his pregnant wife says "my love, my love"
March 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
No uniforms
No badges
No names
No warrant
No charges
Just guns and SUVs taking a man away while his pregnant wife says "my love, my love"
No badges
No names
No warrant
No charges
Just guns and SUVs taking a man away while his pregnant wife says "my love, my love"
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Here’s an updated list of Republicans for DC residents and supporters to call regarding the alarming DC budget cuts.
March 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Here’s an updated list of Republicans for DC residents and supporters to call regarding the alarming DC budget cuts.
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🚨SPREAD THE WORD 🚨
Starting Monday 3/March, ICE activity expected in Northern VA (Arlington, Alexandria, Annandale, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun) & surrounding areas that could result in several arrests. Please be aware of your surroundings, tell your friends/family too.
Starting Monday 3/March, ICE activity expected in Northern VA (Arlington, Alexandria, Annandale, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun) & surrounding areas that could result in several arrests. Please be aware of your surroundings, tell your friends/family too.
March 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
🚨SPREAD THE WORD 🚨
Starting Monday 3/March, ICE activity expected in Northern VA (Arlington, Alexandria, Annandale, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun) & surrounding areas that could result in several arrests. Please be aware of your surroundings, tell your friends/family too.
Starting Monday 3/March, ICE activity expected in Northern VA (Arlington, Alexandria, Annandale, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun) & surrounding areas that could result in several arrests. Please be aware of your surroundings, tell your friends/family too.
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You might not see it in the mainstream media, but over 10,000 people protested today at Tesla showrooms across the country, another 10,000+ rallied in support of national parks, and more than 1,000 gathered in Vermont to protest Vance’s visit.
March 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
You might not see it in the mainstream media, but over 10,000 people protested today at Tesla showrooms across the country, another 10,000+ rallied in support of national parks, and more than 1,000 gathered in Vermont to protest Vance’s visit.
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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I know there is some anxiety around how to protect yourself in light of Muskrat and his herd of shitler youth getting their hands on all our personal information so here are the steps you can take to protect yourself. I’ve seen these in various threads but thought it worth putting them together🧵 1/?
February 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I know there is some anxiety around how to protect yourself in light of Muskrat and his herd of shitler youth getting their hands on all our personal information so here are the steps you can take to protect yourself. I’ve seen these in various threads but thought it worth putting them together🧵 1/?
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The Social Security Administration just put everybody who manages its agency website on administrative leave.
"If there's a website problem, I don’t know who's gonna fix it."
It also shuttered its civil rights office.
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
"If there's a website problem, I don’t know who's gonna fix it."
It also shuttered its civil rights office.
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
Social Security shutters its civil rights and transformation offices
Among the people affected are those managing the agency’s website, a front door to services for Americans online.
www.nextgov.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The Social Security Administration just put everybody who manages its agency website on administrative leave.
"If there's a website problem, I don’t know who's gonna fix it."
It also shuttered its civil rights office.
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
"If there's a website problem, I don’t know who's gonna fix it."
It also shuttered its civil rights office.
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
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The House will vote this week on the GOP's budget proposal, which includes massive cuts to Medicaid and food stamps to pay for even more tax cuts for the rich.
Call your representatives now and tell them to reject it: (202) 224-3121
Call your representatives now and tell them to reject it: (202) 224-3121
February 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The House will vote this week on the GOP's budget proposal, which includes massive cuts to Medicaid and food stamps to pay for even more tax cuts for the rich.
Call your representatives now and tell them to reject it: (202) 224-3121
Call your representatives now and tell them to reject it: (202) 224-3121