Ruby Hopkins
ruhopkins.bsky.social
Ruby Hopkins
@ruhopkins.bsky.social
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I'm stunned. ICE attorneys not identifying themselves in COURT?
July 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Make no mistake: I'm in the Montana House because I believe that's where I can do the most good.

States are THE front line. They are where heinous policies are first tested & fought against. And when the federal gov't goes rogue, state legislatures are a critical line of defense for our communities
Have you considered a Congress run
March 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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This is just the beginning if people acquiesce. Who else will be deported or disappeared for wrongthink?
"Federal immigration authorities also visited a second international student at Columbia over the weekend and attempted to take her into custody but were prevented from entering the apartment, according to a union representing the student."
Leader of student protests at Columbia facing deportation after arrest by immigration officials
A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring’s protests at Columbia University is facing deportation following his arrest by federal immigration agents over the weekend.
apnews.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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WOW.

10+ Republicans just flipped in Montana and voted to kill a 25 year statute of limitations on trans care meant to end care, amended it down to 4 years.

This may not seem like a big deal, but it's huge. It's the most Republicans I've seen flip like this in recent memory.

Zooey's doing work.
March 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Time for some Streisand effect
The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.
February 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Super Bowl ad drives home the critical point: When it comes to acting on climate change #lateristoolate.

But SOLUTIONS EXIST. If we act now, we can help protect the people and places we love.

Bravo Science Moms & Potential Energy Coalition 🌏🏈
February 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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U of Michigan's medical center is one of the only locations in the state where children can get hearing aids. Why? Because private insurers don't reimburse & Medicaid's reimbursement rate is too low for most hearing aid clinics.

Why can UM afford it? Because it gets indirect costs from NIH grants.
February 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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"My mother
was the mossy stream out behind the house [...]
My father
was a demon of frustrated dreams [...]

I sweep the closets.
I leave the house.

I mention them now,
I will not mention them again.

It is not lack of love
nor lack of sorrow.
But the iron thing they carried, I will not carry."
February 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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This is a hell of a crowd size for a protest at the Treasury Department.

People do not like Elon.
The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
February 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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All of this from @pastpunditry.bsky.social. The crisis is not *legible*. Even politically attentive people have no idea - the media are not conveying the scope and magnitude of what's happening. It has to be made legible through political and institutional resistance, not passivity and resignations.
February 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Wray: resigning is "the best way to avoid dragging the Bureau deeper into the fray, while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important to how we do our work"

Meanwhile the FBI is being purged and a compromised, conspiracy-added Trump lackey is being put into place
Nothing to see here, folks. Just would-be dictator Trump giving $800,000 to his handpicked FBI chief who has vowed to use federal power to punish Trump's enemies.
Trump Media gifts Patel, McMahon thousands of shares
Trump Media called the gifts in the filings "consideration for services provided" in 2024.
www.politico.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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"A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20.... They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor..., which contains the director's office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort." ... What?

www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Yes, this is the lab that hosts “drag and tag,” shark tagging research with drag queens that raises money for Florida LGBTQ youth.

We could sure use your support, and you get an amazing adventure out of it!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...
January 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The awe inspiring Grundtvigskirken towers 2 km above icebergs at its base. Sailing through East Greenland's O-fjord, we were blessed with one breathtaking view after another. A privilege to witness!

#bluesky #photography #landscape #travel #nature
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #greenland
January 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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"Hope, I know, is a fighter and a screamer."
January 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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"The next morning
this loon, speckled
and iridescent and with a plan
to fly home
to some hidden lake,
was dead on the shore.

I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world."
January 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Under the GOP's SAVE Act, Tribal IDs would NO LONGER be accepted as valid identification to register to vote.

This is a direct attack on the voting rights of Native American communities.

#StopTheSAVEAct social.demcast.com/s/EC9Y1x2d
January 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM