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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Sep 18

Those last two sentences? They apply to everything.

Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · Sep 18

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

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Nicolas Kadir Jensen @nkjensen.bsky.social · Aug 22

We must mobilize now, defending the rule of law, safeguarding our communities, and rejecting a path toward authoritarian normalization. We must call on our West Coast leaders to create a coalition between our states to protect our freedom and rights.

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Nicolas Kadir Jensen @nkjensen.bsky.social · Aug 22

If this pattern continues, it’s middle- and working-class neighborhoods, especially those already marginalized, that will bear the brunt: subjected to heightened surveillance, checkpoints, and enforcement actions under the guise of “security.”

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Nicolas Kadir Jensen @nkjensen.bsky.social · Aug 22

Critics, from city officials to legal experts, see this as authoritarian overreach. Many warn it could become a playbook for expanding federal control into other liberal-led cities. Seattle and others are already working on legal and operational strategies to protect local autonomy.

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Nicolas Kadir Jensen @nkjensen.bsky.social · Aug 22

What’s unfolding in D.C. is not just a local incident, it’s a warning sign. In August, the President declared a “crime emergency” in D.C., took control of the Metro Police, and deployed National Guard troops, soon to be armed, in major transit hubs, despite violent crime dropping to a 30-yr low

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · Jul 15

A transgender girl housed in a male unit of a Washington, D.C., juvenile detention center has been hospitalized after sustaining multiple injuries, including a broken jaw, officials say.

Trans girl housed in male unit has jaw broken at D.C. juvenile detention center

Officials said they've launched a "full review" after the Youth Services Center resident was transported to the hospital following the incident.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 11

Look who’s making the streets of Los Angeles safer!

Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · Jun 11

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Jun 11

After campaigning on a claim that he would deport undocumented immigrants with a criminal record—a policy that has broad support—Trump is now increasingly arresting persons with no criminal record of any kind.

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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · Jun 11

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Nicolas Kadir Jensen @nkjensen.bsky.social · Jun 8

Quickly becoming one of my top pet peeves: doctors asking you basic questions about your rare condition that they should’ve Googled

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Nicolas Kadir Jensen @nkjensen.bsky.social · Jun 8

Queer justice may make you uncomfortable, but it doesn’t harm you. Feeling discomfort is not the same as unsafe or harmed

#HappyPride #QueerJoy

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 31

Breaking News: The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program critical to the research.

Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine

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NPR @npr.org · May 30

Food aid is moldering in warehouses in Jordan, the main hub for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Other foods and medicines are loaded on trucks that have waited for months at Israeli border crossings.

Food for Gaza decays in Jordan warehouses as Israel restricts aid

Food aid is moldering in warehouses in Jordan, the main hub for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Other foods and medicines are loaded on trucks that have waited for months at Israeli border crossings.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · May 31

When a homeless man questioned the Phoenix police’s authority to stop him in Feb. 2020, an officer knelt on his neck while another shocked him with a Taser.

Another unhoused man said officers threw away his things, telling him, “You guys are trash and this is trash.”

DOJ Abandons Effort to Address Phoenix’s Treatment of Homeless People

The Justice Department retracted findings of constitutional violations in Phoenix and five other jurisdictions. Advocates say the move could further embolden cities and police departments to…

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Nicolas Kadir Jensen @nkjensen.bsky.social · May 28

There’s a typo on the mobile app - 1836 should read 1863.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · May 26

There is no problem to which a Rahm candidacy is the solution.

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Rahm Emanuel, Teasing a White House Bid, Says Democratic Brand Is Weak

The pugilistic Democrat isn’t hiding his political ambitions, openly considering a presidential run as the party struggles to find a way out of the wilderness.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · May 23

Am I crazy or did we just have a convo about how we can't fund cancer research?

Senator Marsha Blackburn tweets: "We're going to build a big, beautiful Golden Dome."

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Nicolas Kadir Jensen @nkjensen.bsky.social · May 11

Remember when he said, ‘We’ll be so rich, you won’t believe it’?

Now it’s, ‘Your kids get two toys this Christmas.’

What a journey.

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Nicolas Kadir Jensen @nkjensen.bsky.social · May 9

I truly don’t understand how Democrats in Congress aren’t shouting every day.
We’re calmly following Robert’s Rules while asking Kristi Noem why the Administration is ignoring a #SCOTUS ruling and disappeared a lawful resident.

This polite detachment is surreal.

#AbregoGracia #AbolishIce

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Nicolas Kadir Jensen @nkjensen.bsky.social · May 9

No rights. No judicial warrant. No due process.

Our neighbors: kidnapped, deported, disappeared.

This is not justice. This is cruelty.

#AbolishICE #StopTheRaids #NeverAgainIsNow

Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · May 9

THIS IS NOT NORMAL

Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation

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‘Harrowing': Video shows Worcester police hold girl's face on ground during ICE operation

Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl’s face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation

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Nicolas Kadir Jensen @nkjensen.bsky.social · May 9

A registry of neurodivergent people is not just unnecessary — it’s dangerous. There’s no justifiable reason to track people this way unless you have something sinister in mind. We must speak out now and demand policies that protect, not target, neurodivergent communities.

NPR @npr.org · May 8

The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.

RFK Jr. says autism database will use Medicare and Medicaid info

The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.

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Nicolas Kadir Jensen @nkjensen.bsky.social · Apr 18

They will continue to lie, get away with most of it, but the people who truly love our great nation will never forget

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · Apr 18

Washington state’s parking reform bill—which applies to cities with >30k residents & counties—sets a ceiling for parking at 0.5 stalls required max for multifamily apartments & 1 stall for every 1k sq ft of commercial space. Also eliminates requirements for affordable housing, mixed use, other uses.

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · Apr 17

The State Senate officially signed off on the Parking Reform and Modernization Act, sending it to Governor Ferguson's desk.

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · Apr 11

SB 5184 passes 64-31!

Parking reform has officially passed both chambers of the Washington legislature!

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Nicolas Kadir Jensen @nkjensen.bsky.social · Apr 18

This will absolutely cripple the US non-profit sector.

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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · Apr 18

"For Trump, the whole point of having money, the whole point of being famous, the whole point of having power, is to abuse that power. If you have to play by the same rules as everybody else, what is the point?"

@omidmemarian.bsky.social's evergreen interview with @naomiaklein.bsky.social

‘The Exceptions Have Become the Rule.’ Naomi Klein on Trump, Gaza and the End of the ‘Liberal Order’

Award-winning author and journalist Naomi Klein speaks to Democracy in Exile.

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