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trans attorney in the south! baker! full of shit! she/her!
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carnalcervidae.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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parkermolloy.com
This has to be a non-starter for senate dems. has to be.
jael.bsky.social jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 17d
the senate republican proposal to address aca subsidies includes a ban on essential health benefit coverage for sex transition-related medical care
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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elisewang.bsky.social
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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snowden.st
fwiw i think it’s probably better to look at this as Masks Off rather than Power Corrupted. Federalist Society folks have had this dripping contempt for their liberal and moderate colleagues, for decades. It wasn’t hard to see, it was just lightly veiled, if at all.
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21d
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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parkermolloy.com
The Next One Here's what's going to happen next. Somewhere, right now, a trans person is teaching a class, or coaching a team, or working at a library, or providing healthcare. They're doing their job. They're probably good at it. And at some point, someone is going to have a problem with them. Maybe a parent, maybe a student, maybe a coworker. The problem won't really be about job performance. The problem will be that they're trans. That person, or someone connected to them, will take their grievance to social media. If they're lucky, Libs of TikTok will pick it up. Or Turning Point. Or one of the other accounts that have built massive followings by turning trans people into content. The post will frame the trans person as a predator, or a groomer, or a bully, or a tyrant. It won't matter what actually happened. The framing is the point. Then the calls will start. To the school board, to the administration, to the HR department. Local news will cover the "controversy." A state legislator will demand an investigation. The institution, desperate to make the problem go away, will put the trans person on leave. Maybe they'll be fired outright. Maybe they'll resign because the harassment makes it impossible to do their job. Either way they're gone. And then the person who started it all will go on Fox News. They'll get a GoFundMe. Maybe a speaking gig at a conservative conference. If the story is big enough, if it goes viral enough, they might get something more. A podcast. A book deal. A center with their name on it. This is not a guess. This is a pattern. We've watched it happen over and over again, and we will keep watching it happen until the institutions that capitulate to these campaigns start recognizing them for what they are: coordinated attempts to purge trans people from public life, dressed up as individual controversies.
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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lolifer.bsky.social
If you're reporting ICE sightings outside of the Ojo Obrero app, PLEASE make sure you at least try to follow the SALUTE reporting format so that your info can be as helpful as possible.
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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meltycatart.bsky.social
Wake County NC, ICE is patrolling here this week starting tomorrow. It is not safe out there, even if you're a US citizen.

indyweek.com/news/northca...

#NC #NorthCarolina #NCNews #WakeCountyNC
Immigration Agents Coming to Raleigh Tuesday, Sources Say
Democratic legislative sources briefed by Gov. Josh Stein’s office told The Assembly and INDY agents are coming to the state capital.
indyweek.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
There are bonafide monsters stalking the earth eagerly and enthusiastically distributing suffering to anyone they please. And with no recourse on our end but to film them and shout and beg for anyone with power to stop them. How convenient that the monopoly on violence always also acts as a shield.
Every headline is a moral injury
Every single post is like a punch in the face. Every headline is a moral injury. Could be I’m extending too much grace here but it occurred to me recently that maybe all of the people who “don’t pay ...
www.welcometohellworld.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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tangledwilderness.bsky.social
As a microcosmic illustration of how the carceral state and capitalism support each other, this is pretty hamfisted.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Oct 29
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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leftistlawyer.com
Damn Bernie are you sure YOU'RE not the one with a weird skull tattoo? Because uh yikes
So, has historically the United States done well under Democrats and Republicans protecting the border? The answer is no. Trump did a better job,” Sanders said on the podcast. “I don’t like Trump, you know, but we should have a secure border. And it ain’t that hard to do. Biden didn’t do it. Those before him did not do it. We should have a secure border period. I think most people in the Congress agree with that.”
October 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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blasphemousjones.bsky.social
"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
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October 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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ianboudreau.com
First good SCOTUS news I've heard in months
October 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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eva.computer
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

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October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help. "I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed. "I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions. "I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, 'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.
October 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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mguariglia.bsky.social
I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
September 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds
Texas GOP candidate Shelley Luther complains that students can't make fun of transgender children By Jay Root, Staff Writer Updated Feb 9, 2022 6:02 a.m.
October 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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queersatanic.bsky.social
Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off
October 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color

Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody
State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.
gothamist.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
We have a white supremacist gestapo with complete immunity in our country now.
Right now: As an ICE agent sets up floodlights facing a few protesters outside the Broadview ICE facility, one activist remarks that photos “better not be for your spank bank.” “Nothing from your genetic lineage would be in my sp…” the agent began to reply, cutting himself off.
September 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
This vision of liberalism requires Black people to accept their humanity will always be a matter of “debate.”
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Sep 13
This sets up an absurd standard where the only justification for criticizing Kirk is if he personally committed violence.

But the entire reason liberalism is under attack is the constant lies and endorsement of violence by prominent conservatives, not because they're doing it themselves!
"Charlie Kirk practiced politics the right way" and "Charlie Kirk practiced the right politics" are not equivalent statements. Kirk practiced bad politics in a liberal manner. When liberalism itself is under political attack, that is no small thing.
September 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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jael.bsky.social
that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror
September 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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mikesenters.bsky.social
This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"
heartlandsignal.bsky.social Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · Sep 10
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:

"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
September 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
i don't have a lot of non-sarcastic responses to this that don't include the words "concentration camp"
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 5
🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.
Matter of Jonathan Javier YAJURE HURTADO, Respondent Decided September 5, 2025 U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review Board of Immigration Appeals Based on the plain language of section 235(b)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(A) (2018), Immigration Judges lack authority to hear bond requests or to grant bond to aliens who are present in the United States without admission.
September 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM