@chilgirljess.bsky.social
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The NYT’s digital investigations are invaluable and unparalleled by any other news org. This one proves ICE murdered a man, and lied about what led up to that murder. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How an Attempted ICE Arrest Near Chicago Turned Deadly (Gift Article)
The New York Times analyzed surveillance, police body-camera footage and bystander videos to understand what happened when an immigration agent shot and killed a motorist in a Chicago suburb.
www.nytimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The NYT’s digital investigations are invaluable and unparalleled by any other news org. This one proves ICE murdered a man, and lied about what led up to that murder. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The city of LA should be doing this with vacant box stores in every neighborhood to try to claw its way out of its abysmal 90th out of 100 U.S. cities park ranking
The 2.3-acre site is located at 1000 S. Central Ave.
Shuttered Joann's store in Glendale to become public park
The site of a shuttered Joann’s Fabric and Crafts Store is slated to be transformed into a park, reports the Glendale News-Press.
la.urbanize.city
July 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The city of LA should be doing this with vacant box stores in every neighborhood to try to claw its way out of its abysmal 90th out of 100 U.S. cities park ranking
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Read this, but be ready to cry.
This story’s ending could have been so amazing, under a humane and just immigration policy. Instead it will break the hearts of everyone involved. And this is being repeated everywhere.
This story’s ending could have been so amazing, under a humane and just immigration policy. Instead it will break the hearts of everyone involved. And this is being repeated everywhere.
NEW — Kelvin Membreño will be deported to El Salvador by ICE tomorrow. He’s the birth father of three US citizen daughters and has become an important part of their lives.
Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:
Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:
A mother's urgent plea to stop ICE from deporting her daughters’ birth father tomorrow
He served his time in the US. He deserves to heal here, too.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Read this, but be ready to cry.
This story’s ending could have been so amazing, under a humane and just immigration policy. Instead it will break the hearts of everyone involved. And this is being repeated everywhere.
This story’s ending could have been so amazing, under a humane and just immigration policy. Instead it will break the hearts of everyone involved. And this is being repeated everywhere.
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There it is, they're trying to de-transition everyone on Medicaid. I wish I was surprised. I'm certainly appalled and deeply worried for all the trans people who rely on Medicaid.
IMPORTANT: Nationwide ban on Medicaid covering gender affirming care is in the House bill.
Prohibition on #Medicaid coverage of gender affirming care extended from youth under age 18 to all beneficiaries (4/x)
May 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
There it is, they're trying to de-transition everyone on Medicaid. I wish I was surprised. I'm certainly appalled and deeply worried for all the trans people who rely on Medicaid.
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
April 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
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THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
April 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
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Of course the main story is Trump’s authoritarianism.
But the secondary story is that some university presidents and donors called for this. They went on the news and in front of Congress to claim their students were violent antisemites, funded by Iran, who don’t deserve speech rights
But the secondary story is that some university presidents and donors called for this. They went on the news and in front of Congress to claim their students were violent antisemites, funded by Iran, who don’t deserve speech rights
March 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Of course the main story is Trump’s authoritarianism.
But the secondary story is that some university presidents and donors called for this. They went on the news and in front of Congress to claim their students were violent antisemites, funded by Iran, who don’t deserve speech rights
But the secondary story is that some university presidents and donors called for this. They went on the news and in front of Congress to claim their students were violent antisemites, funded by Iran, who don’t deserve speech rights
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just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there
Wow—Trump is firing and banning all trans people from the military, per DoD memo.
“Military service by members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.”
Part of memo:
“Military service by members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.”
Part of memo:
February 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there
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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
February 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long.
They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net
They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net
February 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long.
They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net
They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net
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![REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an oath to defend this country, people whohave been under fire, people who have received medals for taking fire for this country. I want toknow from the government whether that language expresses 'animus.' Does that express animus?
DOJ ATTORNEY: Not in any constitutional--
REYES: In a commonsense way. This is a policy from the President of the United States affecting thousands of people. to call an entire group of people, lying dishonest people who are undisciplined, immodest and have no integrity. How is that anything other than showing animus?
DOJ ATTORNEY: I don't have an answer for you.
REYES: You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it...People can make solid arguments as to why some or even most transgender people shouldn't be in the military ..We're dealing with unadulterated animus. We are dealing with the president of the United States dealing with a group of people serving their country .. calling them liars.
(Reyes then said she changed her courtroom orders to bar people who graduated from UVA law school from appearing before her because "they're all liars and lack integrity and are undisciplined and can't possibly meet the high rigors of [being] a lawyer for the government"
She made the DOJ lawyer sit down on that basis, then after he did, she called him back up and asked whether that was a display of animus.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreibelqi3dd5mespmbvsvmfkfz4x37kckubrz7umdej463s3lbdxljq@jpeg)
February 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle.
One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”
One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle.
One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”
One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”
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Well, they did it: the city of Fremont CA (in the southeast area of the San Francisco Bay Area) made it a misdemeanor to “aid or abet” a homeless person. Government policies make people homeless, then make it illegal to help homeless people. Unbefuckinglievable. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
One of the strictest homeless camp bans in the U.S. just passed in the Bay Area
Fremont enacted a controversial ordinance that may criminalize helping unhoused people.
www.sfgate.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Well, they did it: the city of Fremont CA (in the southeast area of the San Francisco Bay Area) made it a misdemeanor to “aid or abet” a homeless person. Government policies make people homeless, then make it illegal to help homeless people. Unbefuckinglievable. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
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Behold: My unified Terminator Theory of parenting through the Trump Era into the apocalypse he has created for our children.
...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare.
My latest in @thenation.com
...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare.
My latest in @thenation.com
Parenting In the Age of Trump
Like Sarah Connor, the heroine of the Terminator movies, Elie Mystal is trying to figure out how to prepare his children for the dystopian future.
www.thenation.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Behold: My unified Terminator Theory of parenting through the Trump Era into the apocalypse he has created for our children.
...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare.
My latest in @thenation.com
...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare.
My latest in @thenation.com
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New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
February 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
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Tesla sales are down 41 percent in Germany, *63 percent* in France.
LOL
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
LOL
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tesla Sales Plunge 63% in EU’s Second-Biggest EV Market
Tesla Inc. registrations plummeted 63% last month in France, the European Union’s second-biggest market for battery-electric vehicles.
www.bloomberg.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Tesla sales are down 41 percent in Germany, *63 percent* in France.
LOL
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
LOL
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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🧵Someone from the /r/fednews subreddit put together a list of all the Elon folks working for DOGE. They are:
Amanda Scales
Brian Bjelde
Riccardo Biasini
Anthony Armstrong
Steve Davis
Baris Akis
Thomas Shedd
Edward Coristine
Russell Vought
Michael Peters
Josh Gruenbaum
Russell “Rusty” McGranahan
Amanda Scales
Brian Bjelde
Riccardo Biasini
Anthony Armstrong
Steve Davis
Baris Akis
Thomas Shedd
Edward Coristine
Russell Vought
Michael Peters
Josh Gruenbaum
Russell “Rusty” McGranahan
February 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
🧵Someone from the /r/fednews subreddit put together a list of all the Elon folks working for DOGE. They are:
Amanda Scales
Brian Bjelde
Riccardo Biasini
Anthony Armstrong
Steve Davis
Baris Akis
Thomas Shedd
Edward Coristine
Russell Vought
Michael Peters
Josh Gruenbaum
Russell “Rusty” McGranahan
Amanda Scales
Brian Bjelde
Riccardo Biasini
Anthony Armstrong
Steve Davis
Baris Akis
Thomas Shedd
Edward Coristine
Russell Vought
Michael Peters
Josh Gruenbaum
Russell “Rusty” McGranahan
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Read @marisakabas.bsky.social’s excellent reporting on Friday’s developments. www.thehandbasket.co/p/musk-frida...
Did you hear about the Friday coup?
Elon Musk is in control.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Read @marisakabas.bsky.social’s excellent reporting on Friday’s developments. www.thehandbasket.co/p/musk-frida...
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Hey folks! Trump has announced something he’s hinted at in the past: sending U.S. prisoners abroad to penal colonies. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Keep your eyes on this.
Keep your eyes on this.
January 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Hey folks! Trump has announced something he’s hinted at in the past: sending U.S. prisoners abroad to penal colonies. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Keep your eyes on this.
Keep your eyes on this.