Courtney
@courtneywashere.bsky.social
She/her. Memberships include: bar association, knitter's guild, Teamsters
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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A Trump-appointed immigration judge says he was fired mid-workday, and the cases on his docket were suddenly put on hold. Another former judge says the people removed were known for giving immigrants due process. Newsweek calls it a “hostile takeover.”
us.headtopics.com/news/fired-j...
us.headtopics.com/news/fired-j...
Fired Judges Speak Out on Trump’s ‘Hostile Takeover’ of Immigration Courts
'Around the world, America stands for something. Or it did,' Jeremiah Johnson, a Trump-appointed judge, told Newsweek.
us.headtopics.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
A Trump-appointed immigration judge says he was fired mid-workday, and the cases on his docket were suddenly put on hold. Another former judge says the people removed were known for giving immigrants due process. Newsweek calls it a “hostile takeover.”
us.headtopics.com/news/fired-j...
us.headtopics.com/news/fired-j...
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We live in a culture where it is far more dangerous to say what a man did to you than for the man to actually do the thing to you. And that is because of all the people who know without actually knowing…That silence is its own kind of sexualized violence. www.ms.now/opinion/jeff...
Opinion | The real Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy is one of silence
Lyz Lenz: Newly released photos show how powerful people's silence enabled Epstein's horrors.
www.ms.now
December 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We live in a culture where it is far more dangerous to say what a man did to you than for the man to actually do the thing to you. And that is because of all the people who know without actually knowing…That silence is its own kind of sexualized violence. www.ms.now/opinion/jeff...
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In case you have never seen this.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In case you have never seen this.
Solidarity is cool
“‘You want some chicken? You ain’t getting it here, bro,’ Wayne Davis can be heard taunting the agents through the door.”
“‘Go somewhere else,’ he can be heard saying through the door.”
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
“‘Go somewhere else,’ he can be heard saying through the door.”
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
'Go somewhere else': Manager locks Border Patrol out of Kenner store
In video shared with WWL, the manager can be heard taunting agents through the locked door.
www.wwltv.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Solidarity is cool
King County, fyi ICE flights from Boeing Field are livestreamed, tracked, and published at kingcounty.gov/en/dept/exec...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Flights - King County, Washington
kingcounty.gov
December 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
King County, fyi ICE flights from Boeing Field are livestreamed, tracked, and published at kingcounty.gov/en/dept/exec...
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UPDATE: Last night, Philippine Airlines refused to allow Greggy Sorio's deportation after pressure from community members, activists and medical professionals. The company cited his poor health condition, saying Sorio was not fit fly. He remains in ICE detention for now.
Community members are rallying at the Northwest Detention Center to condemn ICE's deportation of Greggy Sorio, also known as Kuya G, to the Philippines. Sorio is scheduled to be deported today at 6PM.
Organizers with the Tanggol Migrante Movement, a coalition of Filipino Americans,
Organizers with the Tanggol Migrante Movement, a coalition of Filipino Americans,
December 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
UPDATE: Last night, Philippine Airlines refused to allow Greggy Sorio's deportation after pressure from community members, activists and medical professionals. The company cited his poor health condition, saying Sorio was not fit fly. He remains in ICE detention for now.
Self soothed this weekend by going through and organizing stash (not-a-hoard-but-no,-I don’t-need-to-buy-yarn-right-now). Now plotting 2026 stash knitting, including: #FieCardigan by Kristin Drysdale, #LongLoveCardigan by Ankestrick, and #NightLightsShawl by Andrea Mowry. #knitsky
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Self soothed this weekend by going through and organizing stash (not-a-hoard-but-no,-I don’t-need-to-buy-yarn-right-now). Now plotting 2026 stash knitting, including: #FieCardigan by Kristin Drysdale, #LongLoveCardigan by Ankestrick, and #NightLightsShawl by Andrea Mowry. #knitsky
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“To win the energies of intoxication for the revolution – this is the project about which Surrealism circles in all its books and enterprises,” Walter Benjamin wrote. “This it may call its most particular task.”
@naomiaklein.bsky.social on Surrealism Against Fascism
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
@naomiaklein.bsky.social on Surrealism Against Fascism
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“To win the energies of intoxication for the revolution – this is the project about which Surrealism circles in all its books and enterprises,” Walter Benjamin wrote. “This it may call its most particular task.”
@naomiaklein.bsky.social on Surrealism Against Fascism
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
@naomiaklein.bsky.social on Surrealism Against Fascism
www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Among his first acts, dude’s tossing out institutional knowledge and organizational good will.
LINK FIXED: “Bureaucrats” Losing Jobs in King County Shakeup Say They Were Blindsided by Zahilay’s Emailed Layoff Announcement
“Knowing how much institutional knowledge is going to be walking out the door—it’s going to have an impact,” one employee said.
publicola.com/2025/12/02/b...
“Knowing how much institutional knowledge is going to be walking out the door—it’s going to have an impact,” one employee said.
publicola.com/2025/12/02/b...
"Bureaucrats" Losing Jobs in King County Shakeup Say They Were Blindsided by Zahilay's Emailed Layoff Announcement - PubliCola
“Knowing how much institutional knowledge is going to be walking out the door—it’s going to have an impact,” one employee…
publicola.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Among his first acts, dude’s tossing out institutional knowledge and organizational good will.
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Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
Boycott Campaign Targets Companies Tied to ICE Ahead of Black Friday
The Not With My Dollars campaign takes aim at Amazon, Whole Foods, Dell, Microsoft, Home Depot, Spotify, and Target.
truthout.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
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In 2019, William Arnold and James Fergusson began paying a lot of attention to wild apple trees growing in unique and sometimes unlikely locations around the Cornish countryside. This inspired their ongoing project called 'Some Interesting Apples.'
'Some Interesting Apples' Delves into the World of Feral Fruit
William Arnold and James Fergusson, a pair of Cornwall-based creatives, have planted an orchard growing only "feral" apples.
www.thisiscolossal.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In 2019, William Arnold and James Fergusson began paying a lot of attention to wild apple trees growing in unique and sometimes unlikely locations around the Cornish countryside. This inspired their ongoing project called 'Some Interesting Apples.'
Awhile back, when I was going to the Tacoma detention center frequently, I chatted up a new-to-me guard. He told me he was grateful to be making more money than he’d made working at Safeway. Systemic poverty creates all kinds of incentives.
NEW: Federal prison workers are jumping ship & heading to ICE for better pay + bonuses. Already BOP lost >1400 people this year, reversing all of 2024’s staffing gains. It’s an unintended consequence of Trump’s push for mass deportations
My 1st for @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
My 1st for @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Awhile back, when I was going to the Tacoma detention center frequently, I chatted up a new-to-me guard. He told me he was grateful to be making more money than he’d made working at Safeway. Systemic poverty creates all kinds of incentives.
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This story is nuts.
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This story is nuts.
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."
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in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.
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Continuing to hear more and more about a significant staff shakeup at King County, ahead of Executive-elect Girmay Zahilay's swearing in next week. Scores of policy shop folks, including those in the county's climate office, have been invited to apply to keep their own jobs, and morale is not great.
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Continuing to hear more and more about a significant staff shakeup at King County, ahead of Executive-elect Girmay Zahilay's swearing in next week. Scores of policy shop folks, including those in the county's climate office, have been invited to apply to keep their own jobs, and morale is not great.
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ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
The feds are escalating in Los Angeles. We've seen record high kidnappings and our communities are under attack. The media focus on LA has died down so electeds don't feel the need to even feign opposition.
People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
Reading the criticism of Katie Wilson is making me a bigger and bigger fan of Katie Wilson.
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Reading the criticism of Katie Wilson is making me a bigger and bigger fan of Katie Wilson.
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Knitting my first hot water bottle cover using a purl soho pattern and arranmore light held double
November 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Knitting my first hot water bottle cover using a purl soho pattern and arranmore light held double
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Every election involves months of preparation: testing voting machines, setting up polling sites, and coordinating logistics. Election officials like Tonya Wichman are working year-round to make it all happen smoothly. Read our Q&A with her: bit.ly/3J6JhuJ
October 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Every election involves months of preparation: testing voting machines, setting up polling sites, and coordinating logistics. Election officials like Tonya Wichman are working year-round to make it all happen smoothly. Read our Q&A with her: bit.ly/3J6JhuJ
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i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
October 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.