Meag
@meag.bsky.social
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software eng into biking, the outdoors, & my great dog Ruby
software eng into biking, the outdoors, & my great dog Ruby
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In the country since she was 8 years old, regularly checking in as required, in the process of getting a green card after marriage, and traveling *within the US* when ICE abducted her and said she was traveling internationally.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Stateless Palestinian woman detained after honeymoon released from Ice jail
Ward Sakeik, 22, who came to US aged eight, tells of ‘joy and a little shock’ after more than four months in detention
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
In the country since she was 8 years old, regularly checking in as required, in the process of getting a green card after marriage, and traveling *within the US* when ICE abducted her and said she was traveling internationally.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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New, from me:
The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission.
They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...
The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission.
They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...
Who's Afraid of Zohran Mamdani?
And what it means to be an immigrant on July 4th
donmoynihan.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
New, from me:
The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission.
They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...
The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission.
They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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The fifth set of Byrd droppings is out
Dems win on the sale of public lands: Rs may not sell of our public lands!
Other huge victories in this area around making oil and gas leasing, mining, pay-to-play for oil and gas exports, and NEPA compliance
ENR and Senate Budget Dem staff crushed it
Dems win on the sale of public lands: Rs may not sell of our public lands!
Other huge victories in this area around making oil and gas leasing, mining, pay-to-play for oil and gas exports, and NEPA compliance
ENR and Senate Budget Dem staff crushed it
Provisions Continue to Violate the Byrd Rule in the Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget
The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget
www.budget.senate.gov
June 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The fifth set of Byrd droppings is out
Dems win on the sale of public lands: Rs may not sell of our public lands!
Other huge victories in this area around making oil and gas leasing, mining, pay-to-play for oil and gas exports, and NEPA compliance
ENR and Senate Budget Dem staff crushed it
Dems win on the sale of public lands: Rs may not sell of our public lands!
Other huge victories in this area around making oil and gas leasing, mining, pay-to-play for oil and gas exports, and NEPA compliance
ENR and Senate Budget Dem staff crushed it
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very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."
May 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
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So, uh, it certainly looks like DOJ intended to file a letter to Judge Liman in MTA v. Duffy, but….it accidentally filed a letter containing its legal advice to the Department of Transportation instead
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
So, uh, it certainly looks like DOJ intended to file a letter to Judge Liman in MTA v. Duffy, but….it accidentally filed a letter containing its legal advice to the Department of Transportation instead
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?
April 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?
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How are we still debating ‘efficiency’ when the Orange Commander-in-Chief golfs as much as a retired Floridian.
April 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
How are we still debating ‘efficiency’ when the Orange Commander-in-Chief golfs as much as a retired Floridian.
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tbh i didn't know one person could destroy the global economy
April 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
tbh i didn't know one person could destroy the global economy
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Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting IRS commissioner to resign over deal to share immigrants’ tax data with ICE to help deport them, AP sources say.
April 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.
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They are doing reparations for insurrectionists.
NEW
The Justice Department says the J6ers who paid restitution to Congress for the damage caused to the US Capitol should have their funds returned now that their convictions have been wiped out.
Full Story: bit.ly/42mehfL
The Justice Department says the J6ers who paid restitution to Congress for the damage caused to the US Capitol should have their funds returned now that their convictions have been wiped out.
Full Story: bit.ly/42mehfL
April 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
They are doing reparations for insurrectionists.
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UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off.
We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
My detained client was scheduled for a bond hearing this AM in a MA immigration court. He wasn't brought in, and he and his case have disappeared.
I then received this notice of activity on a nonexistent docket in which his name was changed to "N/A"
It's all happening a lot faster than I expected
I then received this notice of activity on a nonexistent docket in which his name was changed to "N/A"
It's all happening a lot faster than I expected
April 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off.
We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
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This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one
The ability of people to access federal programs should not be a function of whether federal administrators personally like or dislike a state's governor. www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-...
Emails Confirm Social Security Administration Canceled Maine Contracts As Political Payback
Acting commissioner Leland Dudek called Maine Gov. Janet Mills a “petulant child” for defying Donald Trump.
www.huffpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one
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This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so
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What’s wild is that none of these guys would say “happy to contribute to the greater good” if this was about raising their taxes 0.01% to pay for a universal free school lunch program, they just say it about the thing that doesn’t help anyone and is being done for no reason
April 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
What’s wild is that none of these guys would say “happy to contribute to the greater good” if this was about raising their taxes 0.01% to pay for a universal free school lunch program, they just say it about the thing that doesn’t help anyone and is being done for no reason
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March campaign finance reporting
Michelle Wu
$308,156.65
3563 donations
3133 of them < $200
Average donation: $89.71
Josh Kraft
$368,703.47
530 donations
43 of them < $200
Average donation $716.27
(He doesn't itemize donations under $50. He had only $539.39 total for March.)
Michelle Wu
$308,156.65
3563 donations
3133 of them < $200
Average donation: $89.71
Josh Kraft
$368,703.47
530 donations
43 of them < $200
Average donation $716.27
(He doesn't itemize donations under $50. He had only $539.39 total for March.)
April 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
March campaign finance reporting
Michelle Wu
$308,156.65
3563 donations
3133 of them < $200
Average donation: $89.71
Josh Kraft
$368,703.47
530 donations
43 of them < $200
Average donation $716.27
(He doesn't itemize donations under $50. He had only $539.39 total for March.)
Michelle Wu
$308,156.65
3563 donations
3133 of them < $200
Average donation: $89.71
Josh Kraft
$368,703.47
530 donations
43 of them < $200
Average donation $716.27
(He doesn't itemize donations under $50. He had only $539.39 total for March.)
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The problem with employing great writers is that it’s painful when they turn that power towards you. Shana Redmond tells it like it is.
April 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The problem with employing great writers is that it’s painful when they turn that power towards you. Shana Redmond tells it like it is.
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I’m a big man who rides the subway every night because I’m not a terrified hysterical neurotic
Sean Duffy: "The truth is, transit across America is dangerous. And these liberals -- liberal mayors -- they want everybody out of cars and into trains but they made the trains unsafe so nobody really wants to ride them ... even big men don't want to ride the subway at those times of night."
April 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I’m a big man who rides the subway every night because I’m not a terrified hysterical neurotic
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We need a new word- Diana makes a good point. bsky.app/profile/dian...
Really smart guy here warns the media not to call these "reciprocal" tariffs.
Maybe "arbitrary" tariffs? "Capricious" tariffs?
Gobbledegook tariffs?
Gonna need a word, folks. Any other ideas?
Maybe "arbitrary" tariffs? "Capricious" tariffs?
Gobbledegook tariffs?
Gonna need a word, folks. Any other ideas?
So just to recap:
1. The reciprocal tariffs aren't reciprocal. The rates announced by Trump are unrelated to the tariffs charged by other countries.
Imports from Brazil, which imposes relatively high tariffs, will face lower rates than countries that impose little or no tariffs on US goods.
1. The reciprocal tariffs aren't reciprocal. The rates announced by Trump are unrelated to the tariffs charged by other countries.
Imports from Brazil, which imposes relatively high tariffs, will face lower rates than countries that impose little or no tariffs on US goods.
April 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
We need a new word- Diana makes a good point. bsky.app/profile/dian...
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This—what Trump is doing now in trying to destroy American universities, research, and free speech while blaming it on pretend offense to the Jews is certainly the most profoundly antisemitic act I’ve seen from US government in my lifetime.
The claim that the destruction of essential civilizational institutions is being done in the name of the Jews is itself a form of antisemitism—cultural vandalism carried out in our name.
That, my friends, is rank bullshit.
That, my friends, is rank bullshit.
April 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
This—what Trump is doing now in trying to destroy American universities, research, and free speech while blaming it on pretend offense to the Jews is certainly the most profoundly antisemitic act I’ve seen from US government in my lifetime.
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What's especially pernicious of Trump's invocation of "Jewish safety" in his attacks on higher ed is that (1) it is antisemitic in and of itself and (2) it is intentionally designed to foster antisemitism by making people associate Jews with the fascist regime.
April 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
What's especially pernicious of Trump's invocation of "Jewish safety" in his attacks on higher ed is that (1) it is antisemitic in and of itself and (2) it is intentionally designed to foster antisemitism by making people associate Jews with the fascist regime.
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"If this is how many police are sent to a modest protest about bike lanes, what will the response be when we are on the streets for our most basic rights?"
11 HPD Units At Protest Over Bike Lanes-How Will Respond When We Are On Streets For Our Most Basic Rights?
A peaceful protest in Houston this past Tuesday about Mayor Whitmire's anti-bike and pedestrian safety policies, had a large police presence that did not make sense. Especially when we've...
www.neilaquino.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"If this is how many police are sent to a modest protest about bike lanes, what will the response be when we are on the streets for our most basic rights?"
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I noted the plaintiff in the case against the military transgender ban that just resulted in a nationwide injunction against it, out of WA state, is Commander Emily Shilling, a Navy fighter and test pilot who transitioned while in the service.
glaad.org/transgender-...
glaad.org/transgender-...
Transgender Military Service Member: “I am proof that we are qualified to serve” | GLAAD
Commander Emily Shilling, a U.S. Naval aviator who is also an out transgender woman, is already serving in the military, already making our country safer and stronger, already well qualified. "I have ...
glaad.org
March 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I noted the plaintiff in the case against the military transgender ban that just resulted in a nationwide injunction against it, out of WA state, is Commander Emily Shilling, a Navy fighter and test pilot who transitioned while in the service.
glaad.org/transgender-...
glaad.org/transgender-...
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All the pundits spending time on Dems’ message on trans sports could maybe use a little of their power and platform to talk about how vile this is.
We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order
“I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us
“I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us
Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
All the pundits spending time on Dems’ message on trans sports could maybe use a little of their power and platform to talk about how vile this is.