Miss Aranel
@missaranel.bsky.social
Sharing news of the day, with a focus on law, theology, immigration, anti-fascism & ex-evangelical/homeschool survivor. Occasionally commentates & makes a funny. US & UK based. Same handle from the Tweetybird place.
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Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
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you don't have to embarrass our guest by asking if he had someone killed and hacked to pieces
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
you don't have to embarrass our guest by asking if he had someone killed and hacked to pieces
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I got a tip a few months ago that ICE was planning to use tribal airports for ICE flights. I spent a few hours scouring flight data, found no evidence of this, and let it go.
But perhaps they all just said no? If anyone has more info, hmu on signal at gbrockell.44!
But perhaps they all just said no? If anyone has more info, hmu on signal at gbrockell.44!
The definition of audacity: ICE asking WA tribes to host detention centers.
They got a very polite “fuck off.”
“The Nisqually people are not in favor of, nor will the tribal council allow, the detention of individuals by ICE on our reservation or in our facilities.” - Tribal Chair E.K. Choke
They got a very polite “fuck off.”
“The Nisqually people are not in favor of, nor will the tribal council allow, the detention of individuals by ICE on our reservation or in our facilities.” - Tribal Chair E.K. Choke
ICE looks to WA tribes to house detained immigrants
The Nisqually Indian Tribe says it is turning down a request from ICE to house detained immigrants on tribal land.
www.seattletimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I got a tip a few months ago that ICE was planning to use tribal airports for ICE flights. I spent a few hours scouring flight data, found no evidence of this, and let it go.
But perhaps they all just said no? If anyone has more info, hmu on signal at gbrockell.44!
But perhaps they all just said no? If anyone has more info, hmu on signal at gbrockell.44!
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Absolutely fascinating listen, particularly to hear racist Afrikaaners navigating their way through the refugee definition to try to get to the US, and their relationship with that label. Good to hear e.g. removal companies in SA refusing to deal with them.
open.spotify.com/episode/5myL...
open.spotify.com/episode/5myL...
872: Winners
open.spotify.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Absolutely fascinating listen, particularly to hear racist Afrikaaners navigating their way through the refugee definition to try to get to the US, and their relationship with that label. Good to hear e.g. removal companies in SA refusing to deal with them.
open.spotify.com/episode/5myL...
open.spotify.com/episode/5myL...
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To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/
To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans
Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/
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A federal appeals court upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery with pickup trucks before one of them killed him with a shotgun
US appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of white men in Ahmaud Arbery killing
A federal appeals court has upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia more than five years ago
abcnews.go.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A federal appeals court upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery with pickup trucks before one of them killed him with a shotgun
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The malicious app required to make a “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions. www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
A New Attack Lets Hackers Steal 2-Factor Authentication Codes From Android Phones
The malicious app required to make a “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions.
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The malicious app required to make a “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions. www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
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Senator Hale, 1851, dropping truth bombs about the Fugitive Slave Act that apply just as well to Trump's efforts to send troops do "mass deportation" against the will of the people (Cong. Globe, 31st Congress, session 2, p. 598)
October 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Senator Hale, 1851, dropping truth bombs about the Fugitive Slave Act that apply just as well to Trump's efforts to send troops do "mass deportation" against the will of the people (Cong. Globe, 31st Congress, session 2, p. 598)
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This is important. How WOULD an administration less keen on self-imposed guidance use these broad draconian powers?
Interesting debate tonight on the Deprivation of Citizenship Orders Bill - the latest attempt to change the law as recently declared by the Supreme Court: hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2025-1...
Deprivation of Citizenship Orders (Effect during Appea - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : 'Deprivation of Citizenship Orders (Effect during Appeal) Bill' on Tuesday 14 October 2025.
hansard.parliament.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is important. How WOULD an administration less keen on self-imposed guidance use these broad draconian powers?
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To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*
You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.
You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*
You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.
You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.
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The current visa system already leaves many migrants facing poverty, working multiple jobs, as they pay the often tens of thousands of pounds in costs.
Proposed changes from this government continues the dehumanising treatment of us as we are treated as second class.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Proposed changes from this government continues the dehumanising treatment of us as we are treated as second class.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shabana Mahmood to demand migrants earn right to settled status
New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The current visa system already leaves many migrants facing poverty, working multiple jobs, as they pay the often tens of thousands of pounds in costs.
Proposed changes from this government continues the dehumanising treatment of us as we are treated as second class.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Proposed changes from this government continues the dehumanising treatment of us as we are treated as second class.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Calling these people unserious is extremely generous.
what the actual f---
who the hell would take leaks from the administration at face value at this point?
who the hell would take leaks from the administration at face value at this point?
September 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Calling these people unserious is extremely generous.
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One email attachment, a spreadsheet, tracked nearly $2 million in spending:
• A $71K Lexus for Alan Dershowitz
• A $35K watch for a top Clinton aide
• Lingerie and wire transfers to teenage girls
• A $71K Lexus for Alan Dershowitz
• A $35K watch for a top Clinton aide
• Lingerie and wire transfers to teenage girls
September 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
One email attachment, a spreadsheet, tracked nearly $2 million in spending:
• A $71K Lexus for Alan Dershowitz
• A $35K watch for a top Clinton aide
• Lingerie and wire transfers to teenage girls
• A $71K Lexus for Alan Dershowitz
• A $35K watch for a top Clinton aide
• Lingerie and wire transfers to teenage girls
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Maxwell told the DOJ she stepped away from Epstein around 2003.
But the emails show that they were emailing almost every day, even as he prepared to serve his 2008 jail sentence.
But the emails show that they were emailing almost every day, even as he prepared to serve his 2008 jail sentence.
September 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Maxwell told the DOJ she stepped away from Epstein around 2003.
But the emails show that they were emailing almost every day, even as he prepared to serve his 2008 jail sentence.
But the emails show that they were emailing almost every day, even as he prepared to serve his 2008 jail sentence.
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American woman feared losing job and home after Home Office visa error
American woman feared losing job and home after Home Office visa error
Ordeal comes as government considers lengthening the standard qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain
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UK politics live – latest updates
An American woman married to a British man feared she would have to leave the UK and lose her house and job after a Home Office error led to her being issued with a visa for less than two weeks.
Ashley, who requested that her real name not be published in the current UK migration climate, ended up having to apply for a second visa, paid for with savings for a deposit for a home. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
American woman feared losing job and home after Home Office visa error
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NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets
A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.
www.bloomberg.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
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I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
A Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband Are Lying in State. Next to Them: Their Golden Retriever.
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
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Let us not forget tomorrow, Americas darkest day when 2,977 died.
My cousin a NY Firefighter died and all they recovered was his helmet… nothing more. He was 1 of many.
Let us honor our hero’s and pray for all the families of the lost loved ones never recovered.
#neverforget
#flagsathalfmast
My cousin a NY Firefighter died and all they recovered was his helmet… nothing more. He was 1 of many.
Let us honor our hero’s and pray for all the families of the lost loved ones never recovered.
#neverforget
#flagsathalfmast
a picture of the statue of liberty with the words never forget always in our hearts on it
ALT: a picture of the statue of liberty with the words never forget always in our hearts on it
media.tenor.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Let us not forget tomorrow, Americas darkest day when 2,977 died.
My cousin a NY Firefighter died and all they recovered was his helmet… nothing more. He was 1 of many.
Let us honor our hero’s and pray for all the families of the lost loved ones never recovered.
#neverforget
#flagsathalfmast
My cousin a NY Firefighter died and all they recovered was his helmet… nothing more. He was 1 of many.
Let us honor our hero’s and pray for all the families of the lost loved ones never recovered.
#neverforget
#flagsathalfmast
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UPDATE: According to Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk has died.
And Utah Valley University spokesperson, Ellen Treanor, now clarifies that authorities do NOT have a suspect in custody, despite earlier reports.
And Utah Valley University spokesperson, Ellen Treanor, now clarifies that authorities do NOT have a suspect in custody, despite earlier reports.
UPDATE: A suspect is in custody, although we do not know his identity or if he is the confirmed shooter. Law enforcement is continuing to search the buildings and the campus is now closed.
We also do not know motive yet.
We also do not know motive yet.
JUST IN: Several media reports that Charlie Kirk has been shot while at a presentation at Utah Valley University.
Awaiting more information on his condition.
Awaiting more information on his condition.
September 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
UPDATE: According to Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk has died.
And Utah Valley University spokesperson, Ellen Treanor, now clarifies that authorities do NOT have a suspect in custody, despite earlier reports.
And Utah Valley University spokesperson, Ellen Treanor, now clarifies that authorities do NOT have a suspect in custody, despite earlier reports.
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I just saw this one, which is pretty fucking ominous.
September 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I just saw this one, which is pretty fucking ominous.
A family member just recovered from their 4th or 5th COVID infection. It has always been contracted at the hospital where they work. The hospital has a blasé mask if you feel like it policy. Emoyees are encouraged to come to work sick even if +. Employees are not allowed to have HEPA devices either.
September 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A family member just recovered from their 4th or 5th COVID infection. It has always been contracted at the hospital where they work. The hospital has a blasé mask if you feel like it policy. Emoyees are encouraged to come to work sick even if +. Employees are not allowed to have HEPA devices either.
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Our slide into authoritarian rule would not be possible without Trump's willing accomplices. William Pulte's corruption of the bureaucracy to single out the mortgages of Trump foes like Lisa Cook for "investigation" is the perfect example of this.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Furious Trump’s Firing of Fed’s Lisa Cook May Be about to Backfire
The fired Fed governor has filed suit against Trump—and the discovery process may allow her celebrated lawyer to find out if the White House ordered a Trump loyalist to move against her.
newrepublic.com
August 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Our slide into authoritarian rule would not be possible without Trump's willing accomplices. William Pulte's corruption of the bureaucracy to single out the mortgages of Trump foes like Lisa Cook for "investigation" is the perfect example of this.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
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frankly i think the White House should be converted into some kind of diplomat's ceremony building and the President should actually work out of a corner office in some grim government green rectangle where he has to make a new pot of coffee in the break room if he takes the last cup
August 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
frankly i think the White House should be converted into some kind of diplomat's ceremony building and the President should actually work out of a corner office in some grim government green rectangle where he has to make a new pot of coffee in the break room if he takes the last cup
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also and much more importantly, Texas v. Johnson literally already considered the exact two reasons which the Trump administration is saying that they can prosecute people for burning flags for and declined to allow the government to prosecute the burning of flags for those reasons
August 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
also and much more importantly, Texas v. Johnson literally already considered the exact two reasons which the Trump administration is saying that they can prosecute people for burning flags for and declined to allow the government to prosecute the burning of flags for those reasons