steph
@secrettimelord.bsky.social
24 | she/her | latina | queer
metalhead and pop culture enthusiasist
also: reader and occasional f1 and kpop enjoyer
metalhead and pop culture enthusiasist
also: reader and occasional f1 and kpop enjoyer
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El Salvador disclosed that the US is in charge of the prisoners in CECOT—including, Andry, a gay Venezuelan asylum seeker sent there with no due process.
The US always been able to free him—& all of them—but won’t even say if he’s alive.
#FreeAndry
www.npr.org/2025/07/08/g...
The US always been able to free him—& all of them—but won’t even say if he’s alive.
#FreeAndry
www.npr.org/2025/07/08/g...
Migrants deported from U.S. to Salvadoran prison remain under U.S. control
The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains control of the men who were deported from the U.S. to a Salvadoran prison.
www.npr.org
July 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
El Salvador disclosed that the US is in charge of the prisoners in CECOT—including, Andry, a gay Venezuelan asylum seeker sent there with no due process.
The US always been able to free him—& all of them—but won’t even say if he’s alive.
#FreeAndry
www.npr.org/2025/07/08/g...
The US always been able to free him—& all of them—but won’t even say if he’s alive.
#FreeAndry
www.npr.org/2025/07/08/g...
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4 U.S. citizen children, with their mother, held in a detention facility for 2 WEEKS. Denied access to lawyers and even communication with family.
Disappeared. Held Incommunicado. No charges have been filed.
Disappeared. Held Incommunicado. No charges have been filed.
July 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
4 U.S. citizen children, with their mother, held in a detention facility for 2 WEEKS. Denied access to lawyers and even communication with family.
Disappeared. Held Incommunicado. No charges have been filed.
Disappeared. Held Incommunicado. No charges have been filed.
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The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
July 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
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Even Super Hackers need a day off… catch me on the cover of @chicagoreader.com photos by Drag Files
July 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Even Super Hackers need a day off… catch me on the cover of @chicagoreader.com photos by Drag Files
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There's a lot of talk about medicaid in the big awful bill but hardly anyone talking about how it will turn ICE into the largest law enforcement agency in the country and world's largest jailer. This is the equivalent of the enabling acts and will be the start of an ethnic cleansing campaign.
July 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
There's a lot of talk about medicaid in the big awful bill but hardly anyone talking about how it will turn ICE into the largest law enforcement agency in the country and world's largest jailer. This is the equivalent of the enabling acts and will be the start of an ethnic cleansing campaign.
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Hours after ICE became the highest federal law enforcement agency in America history (and likely in world history), the Supreme Court lifts the last obstacle to ICE deporting people to any random country around the world, even in conflict zones or where migrants are enslaved.
Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor & Jackson (and a rare concurrence from Justice Kagan), #SCOTUS "clarifies" that its 6/23 ruling staying a district court's injunction against third-country removals *also* applies to the district court's later order requiring a remedy for those already removed:
www.supremecourt.gov
July 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hours after ICE became the highest federal law enforcement agency in America history (and likely in world history), the Supreme Court lifts the last obstacle to ICE deporting people to any random country around the world, even in conflict zones or where migrants are enslaved.
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anyone who had a position of power (in congress, in the party, in the doj) or influence (like op-ed space in a major newspaper or tv spot), and counseled against swift and punitive legal action, got the biggest question of their lives wrong and should never have power or influence again.
trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether
July 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
anyone who had a position of power (in congress, in the party, in the doj) or influence (like op-ed space in a major newspaper or tv spot), and counseled against swift and punitive legal action, got the biggest question of their lives wrong and should never have power or influence again.
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Arguably the most important part of the article was this policy expert saying:
This doesn't stop in 2028 no matter what.
Once you spend so much money on growing policing + detention, that creates its own local economies. That creates demand. It's hard to wind down. It becomes the norm.
This doesn't stop in 2028 no matter what.
Once you spend so much money on growing policing + detention, that creates its own local economies. That creates demand. It's hard to wind down. It becomes the norm.
July 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Arguably the most important part of the article was this policy expert saying:
This doesn't stop in 2028 no matter what.
Once you spend so much money on growing policing + detention, that creates its own local economies. That creates demand. It's hard to wind down. It becomes the norm.
This doesn't stop in 2028 no matter what.
Once you spend so much money on growing policing + detention, that creates its own local economies. That creates demand. It's hard to wind down. It becomes the norm.
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Monstrous:
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.
A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...
www.tpr.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Monstrous:
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
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We need to understand if the budget also includes more funding to cover staffing, library workers are paid too little and we need to address this too.
SCOOP: New York City leaders have reached an agreement to bring Sunday service to 10 library branches that do not currently have it, as part of a broader city budget deal, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
10 Libraries Will Open on Sundays in N.Y.C. Budget Deal
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
We need to understand if the budget also includes more funding to cover staffing, library workers are paid too little and we need to address this too.
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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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It’s pretty startling that it’s become a feature of the Roberts Court that they save the most outrageous and infuriating usurpations of the Constitution for the last day they are in session and then disappear for months onto the planes and boats of the billionaire friends safe from public scrutiny.
June 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It’s pretty startling that it’s become a feature of the Roberts Court that they save the most outrageous and infuriating usurpations of the Constitution for the last day they are in session and then disappear for months onto the planes and boats of the billionaire friends safe from public scrutiny.
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If you have one of these in your home, unplug it and take it to the nearest electronics recycling facility. No music player/kitchen timer is worth surrendering your privacy.
#youarebeingwatched
#youarebeingwatched
June 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If you have one of these in your home, unplug it and take it to the nearest electronics recycling facility. No music player/kitchen timer is worth surrendering your privacy.
#youarebeingwatched
#youarebeingwatched
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The liberal justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are frustrated with their colleagues, and they're making it clear in what they say — and what they don't.
Read the full story: www.instagram.com/p/DLa6YJNvO6Z/
Read the full story: www.instagram.com/p/DLa6YJNvO6Z/
June 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The liberal justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are frustrated with their colleagues, and they're making it clear in what they say — and what they don't.
Read the full story: www.instagram.com/p/DLa6YJNvO6Z/
Read the full story: www.instagram.com/p/DLa6YJNvO6Z/
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Up to now this bunch of judicial clowns was terrible on lots but still pretty good on free speech. That run is now over. (Tiktok was a harbinger, but more limited. Whereas this is more precedent-overturning.)
Ugh. FSC v. Paxton looks bad on very very very quick skim... Will dig in.
June 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Up to now this bunch of judicial clowns was terrible on lots but still pretty good on free speech. That run is now over. (Tiktok was a harbinger, but more limited. Whereas this is more precedent-overturning.)
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there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
June 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
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“Vague, sweeping laws to rein in online sexual content could end up censoring those who want to share information about sexual pleasure and health, talk about L.G.B.T.Q. issues, celebrate kink or even distribute woman-friendly, consent-focused erotica.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o...
Opinion | The Internet Needs Sex
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“Vague, sweeping laws to rein in online sexual content could end up censoring those who want to share information about sexual pleasure and health, talk about L.G.B.T.Q. issues, celebrate kink or even distribute woman-friendly, consent-focused erotica.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o...
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Yes, this is bad for porn.
But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such:
This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or
But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such:
This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or
BREAKING: SCOTUS upholds Texas' age verification law that requires ID to access adult websites
June 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Yes, this is bad for porn.
But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such:
This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or
But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such:
This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or
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The court’s rightist majority is ruling in a manner that assumes liberals will never again take power.
June 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The court’s rightist majority is ruling in a manner that assumes liberals will never again take power.
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CREW HOW WE FEELING?
The 2025 PWHL Draft has officially come to a close. Here are your future Fleet!
The 2025 PWHL Draft has officially come to a close. Here are your future Fleet!
June 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
CREW HOW WE FEELING?
The 2025 PWHL Draft has officially come to a close. Here are your future Fleet!
The 2025 PWHL Draft has officially come to a close. Here are your future Fleet!
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SQUAD SECURED 👀
Here’s a full look at every pick we made in the 2025 PWHL Draft!
Here’s a full look at every pick we made in the 2025 PWHL Draft!
June 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
SQUAD SECURED 👀
Here’s a full look at every pick we made in the 2025 PWHL Draft!
Here’s a full look at every pick we made in the 2025 PWHL Draft!
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The future looks fierce 😮💨
June 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The future looks fierce 😮💨
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Unions endorsing shitty democrats just because they think they’re gonna win keep looking stupid!!!!!!!!
June 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Unions endorsing shitty democrats just because they think they’re gonna win keep looking stupid!!!!!!!!