Sara
@mazghunah.bsky.social
Academic librarian: digital humanities, info lit, instructional technology, AI. Lawyer for small business, nonprofits, and individuals.
Reposted by Sara
Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
May 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
Reposted by Sara
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
April 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Reposted by Sara
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
April 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
Reposted by Sara
I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Reposted by Sara
From @theathletic.bsky.social: A man walked on the moon nearly a decade before a woman ran in a sports bra.
The sports bra was invented in the mid-1970s after women needed "a jockstrap, but for our boobs.” It continues to revolutionize sports and women's rights. nyti.ms/3FKFGjR
The sports bra was invented in the mid-1970s after women needed "a jockstrap, but for our boobs.” It continues to revolutionize sports and women's rights. nyti.ms/3FKFGjR
March 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
From @theathletic.bsky.social: A man walked on the moon nearly a decade before a woman ran in a sports bra.
The sports bra was invented in the mid-1970s after women needed "a jockstrap, but for our boobs.” It continues to revolutionize sports and women's rights. nyti.ms/3FKFGjR
The sports bra was invented in the mid-1970s after women needed "a jockstrap, but for our boobs.” It continues to revolutionize sports and women's rights. nyti.ms/3FKFGjR
Reposted by Sara
No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
March 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
Reposted by Sara
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
March 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
Reposted by Sara
A look at what happened at IMLS yesterday, as well as what we should prepare to happen in the coming days, weeks, and months.
This agency is going to be a tool of the administration for pumping propaganda.
The tactics used in book banning will also be used here to tie the hands of professionals.
This agency is going to be a tool of the administration for pumping propaganda.
The tactics used in book banning will also be used here to tie the hands of professionals.
The Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is now officially a propaganda department.
bookriot.com/imls-propaga...
bookriot.com/imls-propaga...
The Institute for Museum and Library Services Is Now a Propaganda Machine: Book Censorship News, March 21, 2025
DOGE didn't dismantle the only federal agency supporting public libraries. It was instead turned into a propaganda machine. That, plus this week's book censorship news.
bookriot.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A look at what happened at IMLS yesterday, as well as what we should prepare to happen in the coming days, weeks, and months.
This agency is going to be a tool of the administration for pumping propaganda.
The tactics used in book banning will also be used here to tie the hands of professionals.
This agency is going to be a tool of the administration for pumping propaganda.
The tactics used in book banning will also be used here to tie the hands of professionals.
Reposted by Sara
Reposted by Sara
Again, John Roberts has enabled Trump to completely blow off emoluments.
Saudi-Backed LIV Golf Will Return to Trump’s Doral Resort in 2025 --while he is in the White House www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/u...
Saudi-Backed LIV Golf Will Return to Trump’s Doral Resort in 2025
The April event will be the first in which the Saudi-financed tournament will occur at a Trump location while Donald J. Trump is president.
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Again, John Roberts has enabled Trump to completely blow off emoluments.
Reposted by Sara
Truman tried to buy Greenland during Reconstruction in response the British taking over the airports during the Revolutionary War. #MAGAhistory
“Back in 1867, Democratic President Harry Truman tried to buy Greenland”
January 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Truman tried to buy Greenland during Reconstruction in response the British taking over the airports during the Revolutionary War. #MAGAhistory
Reposted by Sara
Instead of "I apologize for the delay," write "thank you for your patience." In lieu of "sorry for the oversight," write
"if you're so perfect, why don't you fu*king do it, Marsha."
Follow me for more etiquette tips. 😁
"if you're so perfect, why don't you fu*king do it, Marsha."
Follow me for more etiquette tips. 😁
January 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Instead of "I apologize for the delay," write "thank you for your patience." In lieu of "sorry for the oversight," write
"if you're so perfect, why don't you fu*king do it, Marsha."
Follow me for more etiquette tips. 😁
"if you're so perfect, why don't you fu*king do it, Marsha."
Follow me for more etiquette tips. 😁
Reposted by Sara
One of the most prominent voices boosting policies like Meta's sensitive content restrictions is NYU professor Jonathan Haidt, whose dubious book, The Anxious Generation falsely ties social media use to teen mental health issues in order to push a moral panic about kids and technology use.
Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months
Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content"
www.usermag.co
January 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
One of the most prominent voices boosting policies like Meta's sensitive content restrictions is NYU professor Jonathan Haidt, whose dubious book, The Anxious Generation falsely ties social media use to teen mental health issues in order to push a moral panic about kids and technology use.
Reposted by Sara
I'll keep saying it until people in power start listening:
It's not social media that is primarily causing mental health issues for young people.
It's the material economic conditions they face and then see/express on SM that causes it. (healthcare worries, cost of living, unaffordable rent etc)
It's not social media that is primarily causing mental health issues for young people.
It's the material economic conditions they face and then see/express on SM that causes it. (healthcare worries, cost of living, unaffordable rent etc)
One of the most prominent voices boosting policies like Meta's sensitive content restrictions is NYU professor Jonathan Haidt, whose dubious book, The Anxious Generation falsely ties social media use to teen mental health issues in order to push a moral panic about kids and technology use.
Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months
Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content"
www.usermag.co
January 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I'll keep saying it until people in power start listening:
It's not social media that is primarily causing mental health issues for young people.
It's the material economic conditions they face and then see/express on SM that causes it. (healthcare worries, cost of living, unaffordable rent etc)
It's not social media that is primarily causing mental health issues for young people.
It's the material economic conditions they face and then see/express on SM that causes it. (healthcare worries, cost of living, unaffordable rent etc)
Reposted by Sara
This a real thing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
January 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This a real thing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Reposted by Sara
NEW: A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover in right-wing militias.
He didn’t tell police or the FBI.
He didn’t tell family or friends.
The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
This is his story, by @josh-kaplan.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
He didn’t tell police or the FBI.
He didn’t tell family or friends.
The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
This is his story, by @josh-kaplan.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
www.propublica.org
January 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
NEW: A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover in right-wing militias.
He didn’t tell police or the FBI.
He didn’t tell family or friends.
The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
This is his story, by @josh-kaplan.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
He didn’t tell police or the FBI.
He didn’t tell family or friends.
The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
This is his story, by @josh-kaplan.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
Reposted by Sara
The piece has tons of devastating details about Hegseth's many, many disqualifying personal traits, but we shouldn't overlook the parts about how he has repeatedly mismanaged every single organization he's led and been driven out of job after job for utter incompetence.
Yikes. A racist, drunken, sexual predator. "A different former employee described Hegseth being at a bar in the early-morning hours of May 29, 2015, while on an official tour through Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, drunkenly chanting “Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!” www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
Pete Hegseth’s Secret History
A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being rep...
www.newyorker.com
December 2, 2024 at 1:19 PM
The piece has tons of devastating details about Hegseth's many, many disqualifying personal traits, but we shouldn't overlook the parts about how he has repeatedly mismanaged every single organization he's led and been driven out of job after job for utter incompetence.
Reposted by Sara
This is your daily reminder that this really did happen.
November 29, 2024 at 2:30 PM
This is your daily reminder that this really did happen.
Reposted by Sara
Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
November 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
Reposted by Sara
Follow @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social to keep up with ProPublica's reporting on the effects of abortion bans 👇
And if you haven't, read her story on Josseli Barnica, a Texas woman who died after being told it would be a "crime" to intervene in her miscarriage:
And if you haven't, read her story on Josseli Barnica, a Texas woman who died after being told it would be a "crime" to intervene in her miscarriage:
November 26, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Follow @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social to keep up with ProPublica's reporting on the effects of abortion bans 👇
And if you haven't, read her story on Josseli Barnica, a Texas woman who died after being told it would be a "crime" to intervene in her miscarriage:
And if you haven't, read her story on Josseli Barnica, a Texas woman who died after being told it would be a "crime" to intervene in her miscarriage:
Reposted by Sara
New from @propublica.org: A third Texas woman, Porsha Ngumezi, died under that state’s abortion ban. Instead of the D&C she needed, doctors gave her misoprostol. The bleeding continued and she died. www.propublica.org/article/pors...
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2024 at 1:19 PM
New from @propublica.org: A third Texas woman, Porsha Ngumezi, died under that state’s abortion ban. Instead of the D&C she needed, doctors gave her misoprostol. The bleeding continued and she died. www.propublica.org/article/pors...
Reposted by Sara
$200 million in direct spending, plus $44 billion to buy Twitter and turn it into a Trump propaganda firehose. Elon alone spent like 10 times as much as the entire 2004 presidential election cost apnews.com/article/elon...
Elon Musk's PAC spent an estimated $200 million to help elect Trump, AP source says
Elon Musk’s super PAC spent around $200 million to help elect Donald Trump. Most of that money came from Musk himself.
apnews.com
November 12, 2024 at 2:33 AM
$200 million in direct spending, plus $44 billion to buy Twitter and turn it into a Trump propaganda firehose. Elon alone spent like 10 times as much as the entire 2004 presidential election cost apnews.com/article/elon...
Reposted by Sara
The idea that Bluesky is insular and X is a place for diverse views is a fallacy.
X is based on an algorithm rigged to push the views of Musk and others on the far right.
Bluesky is open. You can make it whatever you want it to be.
X is based on an algorithm rigged to push the views of Musk and others on the far right.
Bluesky is open. You can make it whatever you want it to be.
November 18, 2024 at 1:22 AM
The idea that Bluesky is insular and X is a place for diverse views is a fallacy.
X is based on an algorithm rigged to push the views of Musk and others on the far right.
Bluesky is open. You can make it whatever you want it to be.
X is based on an algorithm rigged to push the views of Musk and others on the far right.
Bluesky is open. You can make it whatever you want it to be.
Reposted by Sara
If you're a Veteran and you get your healthcare from the VA, please make appointments with your PCP and specialists before January 20th, and make sure to update all your vaccines and order your meds.
November 17, 2024 at 11:17 PM
If you're a Veteran and you get your healthcare from the VA, please make appointments with your PCP and specialists before January 20th, and make sure to update all your vaccines and order your meds.
Reposted by Sara
For the @nytimes.com I wrote about how Enough is Enough with the incumbent president and his cabinet of folly and let’s stop coddling Trump voters and be real clear-eyed about what lies ahead. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
Opinion | Enough
To suggest we should yield even a little to Trump’s odious politics is unacceptable. Even if we did, it would never be enough.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:13 PM
For the @nytimes.com I wrote about how Enough is Enough with the incumbent president and his cabinet of folly and let’s stop coddling Trump voters and be real clear-eyed about what lies ahead. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...