Victoria S.
@vbaronesf.bsky.social
she/her. Justice seeker working toward a better world. Find me in the spaces between Gender x Democracy x Human Rights.
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Excellent thread here by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social summing up just how dangerous this current moment is for our country.
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I figure I need to explain how extreme and irresponsible is the June 7 Memorandum federalizing the National Guard and authorizing regular armed forces.
Those saying anything in support of this action may not realize what they’ve gotten into.
(It will also escalate from here.)
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I figure I need to explain how extreme and irresponsible is the June 7 Memorandum federalizing the National Guard and authorizing regular armed forces.
Those saying anything in support of this action may not realize what they’ve gotten into.
(It will also escalate from here.)
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June 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Excellent thread here by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social summing up just how dangerous this current moment is for our country.
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Large swaths of (largely Brown & Black) people standing around is not inherently violent. In fact, such a gathering of people is actually the very thing our First Amendment was written to protect: assembly.
June 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Large swaths of (largely Brown & Black) people standing around is not inherently violent. In fact, such a gathering of people is actually the very thing our First Amendment was written to protect: assembly.
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This is a reasonable suggestion. Anyone who wants to be a Democratic leader should be willing to be in LA now.
And I don’t mean with a TV crew, or behind a lectern, or giving interviews, but simply to stand with the community and engage in congressional fact-finding.
And to tell any reporter that.
And I don’t mean with a TV crew, or behind a lectern, or giving interviews, but simply to stand with the community and engage in congressional fact-finding.
And to tell any reporter that.
Well, Mr. Seth Abramson, how about
Every Democratic elected leader head to LA to stand in solidarity with the protesters against Trump's staged and illegal national guard and Marine call up for no other reason than he can and wants us Californians to bend our knees to his illegitimate rule.
SO?
Every Democratic elected leader head to LA to stand in solidarity with the protesters against Trump's staged and illegal national guard and Marine call up for no other reason than he can and wants us Californians to bend our knees to his illegitimate rule.
SO?
June 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This is a reasonable suggestion. Anyone who wants to be a Democratic leader should be willing to be in LA now.
And I don’t mean with a TV crew, or behind a lectern, or giving interviews, but simply to stand with the community and engage in congressional fact-finding.
And to tell any reporter that.
And I don’t mean with a TV crew, or behind a lectern, or giving interviews, but simply to stand with the community and engage in congressional fact-finding.
And to tell any reporter that.
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UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!
June 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!
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Crawford: Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections, and our Supreme Court.. Wisconsin stood up and said that justice does not have a price, our courts are not for sale
April 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Crawford: Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections, and our Supreme Court.. Wisconsin stood up and said that justice does not have a price, our courts are not for sale
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🚨 Call script and targets are being updated throughout the day!
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March 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🚨 Call script and targets are being updated throughout the day!
Check out our toolkit for the latest:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Check out our toolkit for the latest:
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KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
@schumer.senate.gov If Sen. Kelly and others can vote no on this, surely the leader of the opposition party can vote no! (Thank you Mark Kelly!) Sen. Schumer, a yes vote will do far more harm than a temporary gov shutdown. We must use this leverage to check trump/musk and protect [all the things]!
Senator Kelly posted this and per numerous reports will also vote no on cloture
March 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
@schumer.senate.gov If Sen. Kelly and others can vote no on this, surely the leader of the opposition party can vote no! (Thank you Mark Kelly!) Sen. Schumer, a yes vote will do far more harm than a temporary gov shutdown. We must use this leverage to check trump/musk and protect [all the things]!
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The way this works is that you either defend Khalil's First Amendment rights, no matter what you think about his specific views, or else you acquiesce to a totalitarian dystopia where the government can disappear people for expressing opinions opposed by the regime. There's really no middle ground.
Good piece on many university presidents' cowardly refusal to speak out against the Trump administration's ghastly, unlawful abduction and detention of Mahmoud Khalil in retaliation against his constitutionally protected speech. No surprise, but a shame nonetheless. slate.com/life/2025/03...
March 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Watching @pbsnews.org Newshour tonight and a woman in Greenland told the reporter, “We don’t want to be a part of the U.S.A. for obvious reasons, like health care and Trump.” Girl, same.
March 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Watching @pbsnews.org Newshour tonight and a woman in Greenland told the reporter, “We don’t want to be a part of the U.S.A. for obvious reasons, like health care and Trump.” Girl, same.
Courts doing the thing (aka upholding the rule of law) today! ✊🏽
NEWS: Judge Amir Ali finds that the Trump administration is likely violating separation of powers in partially granting a preliminary injunction in the State Department/USAID foreign aid case. As with the TRO, he also finds the government is likely violating the APA with the non-payment issues.
March 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Courts doing the thing (aka upholding the rule of law) today! ✊🏽
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BREAKING: Judge William Alsup — in the case in federal court in California over the probationary employee firings — rules that Acting OPM Director Chuck Ezell had better show up for a hearing on Thursday (or be deposed) or there will be a sanction.
March 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
BREAKING: Judge William Alsup — in the case in federal court in California over the probationary employee firings — rules that Acting OPM Director Chuck Ezell had better show up for a hearing on Thursday (or be deposed) or there will be a sanction.
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Dear US colleagues,
In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France.
There are several M$ in the budget.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France.
There are several M$ in the budget.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
Safe Place For Science: Aix Marseille Université ready to welcome American scientists | Aix Marseille Université
In a context where some scientists in the United States may feel threatened or hindered in their research, our university is announcing the launch of the Safe Place For Science program, dedicated to w...
www.univ-amu.fr
March 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Dear US colleagues,
In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France.
There are several M$ in the budget.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France.
There are several M$ in the budget.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
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The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
March 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
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For me, fighting fascism has nothing to do with thinking I’ll win. I don’t fight because there’s an inevitable outcome, I fight because I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do something.
March 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
For me, fighting fascism has nothing to do with thinking I’ll win. I don’t fight because there’s an inevitable outcome, I fight because I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do something.
With Vance and Johnson behind him smirking like boys in the schoolyard playing sidekick to the class bully
Trump just went off-script to hurl an ethnic slur against Senator Warren
March 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
With Vance and Johnson behind him smirking like boys in the schoolyard playing sidekick to the class bully
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Trump calling gender-affirming care "genital mutilation" takes away from the activists who are actually fighting to stop female genital mutilation and cutting, an extreme form of gender-based violence affecting young girls 19thnews.org/2025/02/trum...
Trump directive ‘dangerously’ conflates gender-affirming care with a human rights violation
Groups that work to end female genital mutilation and cutting worry about an executive order that co-opts anti-FGM/C laws.
19thnews.org
March 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Trump calling gender-affirming care "genital mutilation" takes away from the activists who are actually fighting to stop female genital mutilation and cutting, an extreme form of gender-based violence affecting young girls 19thnews.org/2025/02/trum...
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Pure fascism: the put down of the freedom of assembly.
March 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Pure fascism: the put down of the freedom of assembly.
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This is authoritarianism in real time.
March 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is authoritarianism in real time.
This is not normal.
Trump posted: ‘All federal funding will STOP for any college, school, or university that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!’
March 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This is not normal.
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Data from around the country indicates that many people arrested or deported by federal agents under Trump don’t have any serious criminal history at all, let alone any record that would raise fears about public safety. #SOTU2025 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Isn't Actually Focusing On Deporting Criminals
Trump’s immigration agents seem to be arresting whoever they can get their hands on.
www.huffpost.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Data from around the country indicates that many people arrested or deported by federal agents under Trump don’t have any serious criminal history at all, let alone any record that would raise fears about public safety. #SOTU2025 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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I agree with Donald Trump that an unelected bureaucrat should be fired.
Let’s start with Elon Musk.
Let’s start with Elon Musk.
March 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I agree with Donald Trump that an unelected bureaucrat should be fired.
Let’s start with Elon Musk.
Let’s start with Elon Musk.
Republicans laughing with the president of the US saying no one knows what sedentary migrants are and that no one has heard of Lesotho, disparaging efforts to expand gender equity, voter info, etc… What an embarrassing display of ignorance and arrogance. I’m so sorry for this abomination, world.
March 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Republicans laughing with the president of the US saying no one knows what sedentary migrants are and that no one has heard of Lesotho, disparaging efforts to expand gender equity, voter info, etc… What an embarrassing display of ignorance and arrogance. I’m so sorry for this abomination, world.
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It’s been six days since Chief Justice Roberts’s “administrative” stay in the foreign aid cases. That almost certainly means (1) someone’s dissenting; (2) the Court is trying to reach a compromise; or (3) both. Hard to be sure which it is, but the continuing pause is itself producing plenty of harm.
March 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It’s been six days since Chief Justice Roberts’s “administrative” stay in the foreign aid cases. That almost certainly means (1) someone’s dissenting; (2) the Court is trying to reach a compromise; or (3) both. Hard to be sure which it is, but the continuing pause is itself producing plenty of harm.
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RIP U.S. Department of Education. Education Secretary Linda McMahon introduced herself to department employees with an email calling on them to join her in a “historic final mission” to downsize the agency and shift control to the states.
March 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
RIP U.S. Department of Education. Education Secretary Linda McMahon introduced herself to department employees with an email calling on them to join her in a “historic final mission” to downsize the agency and shift control to the states.