Katie
@clairsquared.bsky.social
Mama, lawyer, budding gardener. *All views are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer.*
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Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
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Abolish ICE.
Any D elected who doesn't agree needs to be primaried.
Any D elected who doesn't agree needs to be primaried.
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Abolish ICE.
Any D elected who doesn't agree needs to be primaried.
Any D elected who doesn't agree needs to be primaried.
Then, … can we stop ripping immigrant mothers from their nursing babies and leaving them to them suffer in detention without even a pump? Can we get paid parental leave? Can we get flexible workplace policies?
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Then, … can we stop ripping immigrant mothers from their nursing babies and leaving them to them suffer in detention without even a pump? Can we get paid parental leave? Can we get flexible workplace policies?
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
A serious problem for HRC is she’s delusional. What, it’s deep fakes all the way down? Gaza is actually fine? Not starving? Hospitals still standing? Journos not killed? Or does she think those kids killed their own parents & cut off their own limbs? WTF? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
Hillary Clinton Blames TikTok for Misinformation Influencing Young People’s Views on Israel and Palestine
"It's a serious problem for democracy, whether it's Israel or the United States, and it's a serious problem for our young people," she said.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A serious problem for HRC is she’s delusional. What, it’s deep fakes all the way down? Gaza is actually fine? Not starving? Hospitals still standing? Journos not killed? Or does she think those kids killed their own parents & cut off their own limbs? WTF? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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this sounds like a great idea. luckily there are no extremely serious consequences to providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
this sounds like a great idea. luckily there are no extremely serious consequences to providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service
Shock, habit, your own decorum etc are all so powerful. A good reason to imagine & plan ahead for situations when you may need to be brave. What are my red lines? What would I do if given an illegal or unethical order? If someone powerful says something cruel? If I see ICE?
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Shock, habit, your own decorum etc are all so powerful. A good reason to imagine & plan ahead for situations when you may need to be brave. What are my red lines? What would I do if given an illegal or unethical order? If someone powerful says something cruel? If I see ICE?
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Even Miss Piggy herself would not tolerate “quiet piggy”. She would have gone full diva karate chop. What the fuck is happening
November 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Even Miss Piggy herself would not tolerate “quiet piggy”. She would have gone full diva karate chop. What the fuck is happening
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Don't be evil?
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Don't be evil?
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
This is so on the nose.
The reason the emails read like hot garbage is because they don't have to worry about being judged. These are not men who have ever poured over an email out of fear of not being taken seriously or not being treated professionally.
November 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This is so on the nose.
Who WASN’T casually emailing with this monster?
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Who WASN’T casually emailing with this monster?
A vote on the subsidies, which GOP will vote against, is not enough. If they were for it, they’d vote for it today. This is Lucy with the football. I say this as a fed really sick of working for free. But if the sacrifice is not worth anything, why have we been doing it?? (All views are mine)
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
A vote on the subsidies, which GOP will vote against, is not enough. If they were for it, they’d vote for it today. This is Lucy with the football. I say this as a fed really sick of working for free. But if the sacrifice is not worth anything, why have we been doing it?? (All views are mine)
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For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
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I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
She did try to follow up here but is still jumping topics a bit from tactics to who is the target. Tell one sympathetic specific story and show the video from that story and ask how he can sleep at night thinking this is ok.
Q: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?"
Trump: "No. I think they haven't gone far enough”
Trump: "No. I think they haven't gone far enough”
November 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
She did try to follow up here but is still jumping topics a bit from tactics to who is the target. Tell one sympathetic specific story and show the video from that story and ask how he can sleep at night thinking this is ok.
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Q: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?"
Trump: "No. I think they haven't gone far enough”
Trump: "No. I think they haven't gone far enough”
November 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Q: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?"
Trump: "No. I think they haven't gone far enough”
Trump: "No. I think they haven't gone far enough”
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Don't see a way out of this apart from the strict legal regulation of all generative "AI". Everything needs to be labeled, the use of the likeness of real people (alive or dead) without their express consent needs to be libel (even in a labeled video), and the fines need to be ruinous.
November 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Don't see a way out of this apart from the strict legal regulation of all generative "AI". Everything needs to be labeled, the use of the likeness of real people (alive or dead) without their express consent needs to be libel (even in a labeled video), and the fines need to be ruinous.
Wow. I mean, wow. I insist on being shocked. And, to be clear, this racist asshole isn’t just a racist asshole. He’s ALSO part of an administration hell bent on destroying labor unions.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Wow. I mean, wow. I insist on being shocked. And, to be clear, this racist asshole isn’t just a racist asshole. He’s ALSO part of an administration hell bent on destroying labor unions.
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🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
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Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in local economic activity. Without SNAP, that will mean a loss of $15 billion to the US economy just in November alone.
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in local economic activity. Without SNAP, that will mean a loss of $15 billion to the US economy just in November alone.
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Ninth journalist I'm aware of ICE has targeted in apparent retaliation for exercising Constitutionally protected rights.
Nothing damages American more than being so small/weak/petty that you abuse government resources to target speech.
Hard to imagine something more unpatriotic and un-American.
Nothing damages American more than being so small/weak/petty that you abuse government resources to target speech.
Hard to imagine something more unpatriotic and un-American.
ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour
Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Ninth journalist I'm aware of ICE has targeted in apparent retaliation for exercising Constitutionally protected rights.
Nothing damages American more than being so small/weak/petty that you abuse government resources to target speech.
Hard to imagine something more unpatriotic and un-American.
Nothing damages American more than being so small/weak/petty that you abuse government resources to target speech.
Hard to imagine something more unpatriotic and un-American.
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Those who are most able to fight back are behaving like cowards while everyday people are standing up
Nation’s biggest law firms back off from challenging Trump policies
The pace generated by more than 390 lawsuits challenging Trump administration actions has lawyers from many firms working around-the-clock.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Those who are most able to fight back are behaving like cowards while everyday people are standing up
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.