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Khadijah M Silver (they/them), JD/MPH
@khadijah.bsky.social
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Everything I care about was target of a day one EO: #civilrights #equity #transrights #environmentaljustice etc. Policy lawyer, ex-journo/NP exec fueled by fierce love&lighthearted shit-talking. Finding solidarity with my inner child. Views mine, all mine!
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Khadijah M Silver (they/them), JD/MPH @khadijah.bsky.social · Feb 9
New followers: FYI, I’m not inclined to follow back if you haven’t posted anything & will block you if you give me the ick but please feel free to just say hi & tell me what inspired your follow so I can check out your feed & get to know you! PS: no fed posting. We’re all mad — keep it together!
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theradseed.blacksky.app
All Those tow companies should catch hell too. Knowing these cats will sit in impounds racking up fees every day that their owners in ice custody can't pay so they'll get report or liens places on em. Now owner can't even sell car for cash to spend on lawyers
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d
WTF 🤬
ICE in DC is setting up racially driven checkpoints and roadblocks. This is one on Canal Road. A large number of vehicles can be seen waiting to be towed after these agents disappeared their owners.
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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newyorker.com
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. She writes about her fear of adding another tragedy to her family’s life. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/CLpbsb
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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treblaw.bsky.social
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
Grant a wish change a life with one simple wish
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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luckytran.com
ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:

Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin

A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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adamjst.bsky.social
ICE started holding people at the Fort Bliss, El Paso location in late July/early August. It is now the largest detention center in the country.

detentionreports.com/facility/ERO...
A bar graph showing interval ADP and Reported ADP for ERO El Paso Camp East Montana.
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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adamjst.bsky.social
We have updated detentionreports.com.

229 separate reports for 229 ICE detention facilities.
ICE Detention Facilities Statistics 229 Detention Centers State All States City e.g., Notes Zip Code e.g., 00000 Search facilities by name, location, or detention code... Search facilities by name, city, state, or detention location code.
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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lexmcmenamin.com
redid my personal site post-layoff :)

my contact form is open! if you're looking to talk to or commission someone with expertise in covering and analyzing social movements, prison and police abolition, trans politics, climate organizing, cultural criticism... reach out! (my DMs are cursed rn, lol)
Lex McMenamin
Lex McMenamin is a writer, editor, and organizer from Philadelphia, based in New York.
lexmcmenamin.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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mikesacks.bsky.social
SCOND, 3-2, says North Dakota’s 6-week abortion ban violates the state’s constitution, but because 4 justices are required to strike down a state law, the ban goes back into effect.

www.ndcourts.gov/supreme-cour...
Access Independent Health Services, Inc., d/b/a Red River Women's Clinic, et al. v. Wrigley No. 20240291 Per curiam. 191] "IT]he supreme court shall not declare a legislative enactment unconstitutional unless at least four of the members of the court so decide." N.D. Const. art. VI, S 4. Justice Crothers, joined by Justice McEvers and District Judge Narum, concluded N.D.C.C. ch. 12.1-19.1 is unconstitutionally vague under article I, § 12 of the North Dakota Constitution. Justice Tufte, joined by Chief Justice Jensen, concluded N.D.C.C. ch. 12.1-19.1 is not unconstitutional under either article 1, § 1 or article I, § 12 of the North Dakota Constitution. The effect of the separate opinions in this case is that N.D.C.C. ch. 12.1-19.1 is not declared unconstitutional by a sufficient majority and that the district court judgment declaring N.D.C.C. ch. 12.1-19.1 unconstitutional and void is reversed. See MKB Mgmt. Corp v. Burdick, 2014 ND 197, I 1, 855 N.W.2d 31 (judgment enjoining enforcement of law reversed after the Court did not reach a sufficient majority to declare the law unconstitutional). Crothers, Justice. [94] The State appeals from a judgment declaring N.D.C.C. ch. 12.1-19.1 violates the North Dakota Constitution. The district court did not err when it decided the law, which criminalizes abortion with exceptions, is unconstitutionally vague. The vagueness in the law relates to when an abortion can be performed to preserve the life and health of the mother. After striking this invalid provision, the remaining portions of the law would be inoperable. 1 Because the unconstitutional part of the law cannot be severed from the rest, N.D.C.C. ch. 12.1-19.1 would be invalid in its entirety. We would affirm the district court's judgment on these grounds only and decline to address the Tufte, Justice. [964] I depart from the majority opinion in two significant respects. First, the majority opinion extends to the natural rights guaranteed by Article I, Section 1, the more stringent vagueness standard we have previously reserved for First Amendment rights that receive the additional protection of the chilling effect doctrine. Second, the majority opinion extends our precedent to allow a pre- 37 enforcement facial challenge in which the challengers present only hypothetical future conduct as the basis for the testifying experts' disagreement about the legal application of the statute. The parties' presentation of witnesses having expertise in medicine or history who disagree about lawyer-crafted hypotheticals is not a sufficient basis for a court to declare a statute unconstitutionally vague. The majority opinion recognizes a protection against chilling exercise of the natural right asserted here, without adequately framing the right or interpreting what scope of protection it may provide to abortion. As I explain below, even assuming a stricter vagueness standard should apply to statutes implicating a constitutional right, we must first interpret both the constitutional provision and the statute to resolve whether the statute conflicts with or otherwise implicates the constitutional right. I conclude the statute challenged here prohibits abortion only in circumstances that are outside the scope of the Section 1 right of "defending life" and "obtaining safety," and thus does not implicate Section 1 such that a more stringent vagueness standard may apply under Section 12. Chapter 12.1-19.1, N.D.C.C., is not void under our ordinary test for vagueness.
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
The whole exchange is about 10 minutes. Here the director of Arkansas DCFS is interrogated about whether GAC constitutes “child abuse” under state law, and whether she was aware the vendor had posted in support of families of trans kids. He concludes by suggesting the contract be reviewed.
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
While this is just a state committee, there’s plenty of reason to be worried nationally about child welfare. It’s clear both state and federal officials are looking to revisit the system as it exists in favor of one ruled by conservative orthodoxy.
jessdkant.bsky.social Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 11d
Yesterday’s executive order is about 10 months later than expected but on target to do exactly as predicted. It will fully reverse protections enacted under Biden, and resurrect church-run, faith-based systems like we used to have before public social services.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, shall: (a) take appropriate action to address State and local policies and practices that inappropriately prohibit participation in federally-funded child-welfare programs by qualified individuals or organizations based upon their sincerely-held religious beliefs or moral convictions; and (b) take appropriate action to increase partnerships between agencies and faith-based organizations and houses of worship to serve families whose children have been placed in foster care or are at risk of being placed in foster care.
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
This is Evident Change describing the role of their structured decision making software in state Departments of Children and Families.

evidentchange.org/child-welfare/
• Intake assessment: The screening section of the intake assessment helps child abuse hotline workers determine if the current report requires a child protective services (CPS) investigation response. The response priority section helps workers determine how swiftly an investigation must be initiated for those reports accepted for investigation. Safety assessment: The assessment helps workers at all points in a case determine if a child may safely remain in the home, with or without a safety plan in place. A second safety assessment, customized for use in foster and substitute care, has also been developed. • Risk assessment: This actuarial assessment estimates the likelihood of future child welfare system involvement, and assists investigation workers in determining which cases should be continued for ongoing services and which may be closed at the end of an investigation.
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
A little more than halfway through, Rep. Rose goes on a tirade demanding state contractors attest to believing GAC is abuse as conditional for a contract.
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95th General Assembly Arkansas Legislative Council hearing, Rose on camera
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
khadijah.bsky.social
This should be national news and everyone should be talking about it, everywhere
jessdkant.bsky.social Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4d
Arkansas debating the contract of the company that oversees the state child abuse reporting system because they support trans kids:

“The work … includes screening calls to the state Child Abuse Hotline, calibrating the hotline’s structured decision-making tool”

arkansasadvocate.com/2025/11/21/a...
Lawmakers are considering a $375,000 amendment to an existing contract with Evident Change that would bring the total authorized amount above $4.2 million, according to legislative documents. The money would pay for additions to Evident Change's scope of work and performance indicators. The work in question includes screening calls to the state Child Abuse Hotline, calibrating the hotline's structured decision-making tool and coaching child abuse investigators, Wright said in response to questions from Rep. Ryan Rose, R- Van Buren. West Virginia contracted with Evident Change last year to utilize the structured decision-making tool for its own child welfare system. Rose asked Wright if she was aware that Evident Change "publicly posted articles and argued that in Texas, gender transition surgeries, hormone therapies, et cetera for minors should not be treated or investigated as child abuse."
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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davidjbier.bsky.social
They planned to force him to crash or shoot him for recording their crimes. They then accused him of assaulting them. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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davidjbier.bsky.social
A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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eff.org
So-called "smart" devices are pushed heavily for the holidays, but be mindful of what you're opting that gift recipient into. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers,
www.eff.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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leftistwonk.bsky.social
Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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eyegah.bsky.social
1990 me “so what’s up”
2025 me: “well I just read the porno poetry sent by an elderly anti-vax Kennedy to a reporter, published by her ex boyfriend on a website where we debate stuff like is it bad when people rely on machines that tell them how fast a racist govt trillionaire can drink his pee
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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grza.bsky.social
The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
khadijah.bsky.social
Incredible analysis
anildash.com Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4d
I don't mean this in an "I told you so" way, but it was very obvious to me that the Mamdani/Trump meeting would go the way it did, because Mamdani is ascendant, popular, powerful and charismatic, all things that Trump wants to glom on to. Trump has no principles; it's not like he has converted.
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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uebey.bsky.social
Reminder: Federal prosecutors are expected to file a 120-page(!) brief in support of the death penalty for Luigi Mangione tonight.
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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dillo.media
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Cenk Uygur to Marjorie t green I would have never imagined saying this, but ... don't go. Stay and fight. Even though we still disagree on so many things, you were one of the very few honest people in Congress. Stay and fight!
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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igallupd.bsky.social
JFC:
"'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails"
"Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors."
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies are dying in jail
Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM