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When David, a single father, came to Family Court a decade ago with his then 1-year-old daughter Ovenia, the Strong Starts Court Initiative was a brand-new pilot program in the Bronx.
10 years later, the program has become a staple in family courts throughout New York City and upstate. ⤵️
10 years later, the program has become a staple in family courts throughout New York City and upstate. ⤵️
Reflecting on Strong Starts, 10 Years On
Over the past decade, the Strong Starts Court Initiative has transformed Family Court to strengthen parents’ relationships with their babies.
www.innovatingjustice.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
When David, a single father, came to Family Court a decade ago with his then 1-year-old daughter Ovenia, the Strong Starts Court Initiative was a brand-new pilot program in the Bronx.
10 years later, the program has become a staple in family courts throughout New York City and upstate. ⤵️
10 years later, the program has become a staple in family courts throughout New York City and upstate. ⤵️
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I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
A man missing for weeks and the immigration system that lost him
Vicente Ventura Aguilar got picked up last month, but his family doesn’t know if he’s dead or alive. ICE says he’s not in their system, so they say they can’t help.
www.ms.now
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
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Fascism built in.
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
www.nbcnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Fascism built in.
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This is brilliant
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is brilliant
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“Patel’s heavy use of taxpayer-funded resources during his first nine months on the job has contributed to growing questions inside the administration about whether it exceeds the bounds of standard practice.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“Patel’s heavy use of taxpayer-funded resources during his first nine months on the job has contributed to growing questions inside the administration about whether it exceeds the bounds of standard practice.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
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Funny thing, most of us on the left have been saying this for years 🤣
Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries, Nigeria, India, Russia, China, Morocco, Europe etc.,
www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...
Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries, Nigeria, India, Russia, China, Morocco, Europe etc.,
www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...
Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries
A large number of MAGA social media influencers were exposed over the weekend as being being based in other countries.Podcaster Matt Binder posted screenshots showing that Charlie’s Voice Rising, a po...
www.rawstory.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Funny thing, most of us on the left have been saying this for years 🤣
Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries, Nigeria, India, Russia, China, Morocco, Europe etc.,
www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...
Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries, Nigeria, India, Russia, China, Morocco, Europe etc.,
www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...
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Latest piece out in @theatlantic.com . Trump's "peace" plan for Ukraine, which he at this very moment trying to force on the country with threats and intimidation, is grotesque. The US president is admitting what too many refused to admit, he wants Putin to win. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump’s Devastating Plan for Ukraine
The White House is giving Putin permission to try again.
www.theatlantic.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Latest piece out in @theatlantic.com . Trump's "peace" plan for Ukraine, which he at this very moment trying to force on the country with threats and intimidation, is grotesque. The US president is admitting what too many refused to admit, he wants Putin to win. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Got this early on from a parish priest. Bullshit then, bullshit now. Here's a simple solution for any dude who is just way too stimulated in the company of women and girls. LEAVE THE ROOM. Go home and take a shower. Then call a therapist because you need help.
Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds.
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Got this early on from a parish priest. Bullshit then, bullshit now. Here's a simple solution for any dude who is just way too stimulated in the company of women and girls. LEAVE THE ROOM. Go home and take a shower. Then call a therapist because you need help.
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The U.S. Coast Guard has reversed course on its move to reclassify swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive,” following widespread backlash.
Trump’s Coast Guard Backtracks on Swastika Policy After Uproar
The military service had drafted a policy that labeled the Nazi-era insignia as “potentially divisive.”
trib.al
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The U.S. Coast Guard has reversed course on its move to reclassify swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive,” following widespread backlash.
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The typical joke is that they don’t have a health care plan and they’ll never have one.
But they do and it passed last July: taking away four people’s health care to pay for a tax cut for one millionaire family.
But they do and it passed last July: taking away four people’s health care to pay for a tax cut for one millionaire family.
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The typical joke is that they don’t have a health care plan and they’ll never have one.
But they do and it passed last July: taking away four people’s health care to pay for a tax cut for one millionaire family.
But they do and it passed last July: taking away four people’s health care to pay for a tax cut for one millionaire family.
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"A decade ago, science showed us a narrow window of opportunity to avert the looming planetary crisis. That window has closed. We are now in the midst of the storm"
My latest for Technosphere Earth reporting on a new paper published with the Earth League.
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
My latest for Technosphere Earth reporting on a new paper published with the Earth League.
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
Living beyond limits
Decades of climate policy failure means we must find ways to live in a more dangerous world
www.technosphere.earth
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"A decade ago, science showed us a narrow window of opportunity to avert the looming planetary crisis. That window has closed. We are now in the midst of the storm"
My latest for Technosphere Earth reporting on a new paper published with the Earth League.
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
My latest for Technosphere Earth reporting on a new paper published with the Earth League.
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
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It’s another great day to remind everybody that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s another great day to remind everybody that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
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scoop w/ @laurenhirsch.bsky.social and @nsperling.bsky.social: Warner Bros. boss David Zaslav held a dinner party at Woodland, his French Regency-style home on Wednesday, where he talked up a bid from Netflix. The latest on the race for Hollywood's big prize:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
Netflix, Comcast and Paramount Submit Warner Bros. Discovery Bids
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
scoop w/ @laurenhirsch.bsky.social and @nsperling.bsky.social: Warner Bros. boss David Zaslav held a dinner party at Woodland, his French Regency-style home on Wednesday, where he talked up a bid from Netflix. The latest on the race for Hollywood's big prize:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
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Despite the importance of having a diverse judiciary, many state supreme court benches still fail to reflect the diversity of the legal profession. 39% of sitting justices are former prosecutors, while only 10% are former public defenders. bit.ly/3JW6lN6
State Supreme Court Diversity - November 2025 Update
Many state supreme courts lack diversity in terms of their justices’ race, ethnicity, gender, and professional background.
www.brennancenter.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Despite the importance of having a diverse judiciary, many state supreme court benches still fail to reflect the diversity of the legal profession. 39% of sitting justices are former prosecutors, while only 10% are former public defenders. bit.ly/3JW6lN6
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NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
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The U.S. unemployment rate just hit a four-year high at 4.4%. Now, try wrapping your head around the idea of a 43% unemployment rate.
That’s the reality formerly incarcerated Black women face, thanks to the prison penalty:
That’s the reality formerly incarcerated Black women face, thanks to the prison penalty:
November 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The U.S. unemployment rate just hit a four-year high at 4.4%. Now, try wrapping your head around the idea of a 43% unemployment rate.
That’s the reality formerly incarcerated Black women face, thanks to the prison penalty:
That’s the reality formerly incarcerated Black women face, thanks to the prison penalty:
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Oh, nothing to see here but the President of the USA calling for the execution of political opponents. Just a normal day in crazy-town.
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Oh, nothing to see here but the President of the USA calling for the execution of political opponents. Just a normal day in crazy-town.
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Just so I understand this correctly: I’m not allowed to use words like trauma, inclusive, diversity or equity but they can have insecure group chats about war plans?
March 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Just so I understand this correctly: I’m not allowed to use words like trauma, inclusive, diversity or equity but they can have insecure group chats about war plans?
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Autism doesn't destroy families.
Stigma, discrimination, and being victims of violence 'destroys' families.
Financial insecurity, isolation, lack of support, limited resources 'destroys' families.
Divisive policies, ignorant politicians, and facism 'destroys' families.
Stigma, discrimination, and being victims of violence 'destroys' families.
Financial insecurity, isolation, lack of support, limited resources 'destroys' families.
Divisive policies, ignorant politicians, and facism 'destroys' families.
April 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Autism doesn't destroy families.
Stigma, discrimination, and being victims of violence 'destroys' families.
Financial insecurity, isolation, lack of support, limited resources 'destroys' families.
Divisive policies, ignorant politicians, and facism 'destroys' families.
Stigma, discrimination, and being victims of violence 'destroys' families.
Financial insecurity, isolation, lack of support, limited resources 'destroys' families.
Divisive policies, ignorant politicians, and facism 'destroys' families.
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June 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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"As detention numbers have spiked within ICE facilities under the Trump administration, deaths have also begun to rise ... Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney" www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"As detention numbers have spiked within ICE facilities under the Trump administration, deaths have also begun to rise ... Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney" www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
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Is the legal resistance working? It is. Because of the people. The people are powering the most successful legal defense effort against a President in U.S. history – and it will be the strength of the people that protects our democracy from authoritarianism.
November 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Is the legal resistance working? It is. Because of the people. The people are powering the most successful legal defense effort against a President in U.S. history – and it will be the strength of the people that protects our democracy from authoritarianism.