Diana Parker-Kafka
@dianaparker.bsky.social
(She/They)
ED of Midwest Access Coalition
Co-founder of Apiary for Practical Support
Founding Treasurer of Elevated Access
Founding Treasurer of Foxglove Fund
Former board member of Chicago Community Bond Fund
Opinions belong to me, DEI, and pettiness
ED of Midwest Access Coalition
Co-founder of Apiary for Practical Support
Founding Treasurer of Elevated Access
Founding Treasurer of Foxglove Fund
Former board member of Chicago Community Bond Fund
Opinions belong to me, DEI, and pettiness
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The volunteer pilots ✈️ at @elevatedaccess.bsky.social have flown almost *3,000* people for abortion and gender affirming care.
Now, we’re looking for a donation of a specific type of plane to fill in some gaps left by commercial planes and the private planes of our generous volunteer pilots.
Now, we’re looking for a donation of a specific type of plane to fill in some gaps left by commercial planes and the private planes of our generous volunteer pilots.
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Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
Georgia police chief charged with using license plate readers to stalk and harass people
A police chief in suburban Atlanta has been arrested on charges of using the city's license plate cameras to stalk and harass people.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
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In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
Texas deputy searched Spokane County Flock cameras for a woman who had an abortion– RANGE Media
Amidst nationwide and state scrutiny of the cameras, Spokane County’s Flock network was used by an out-of-state cop looking for a woman who had an abortion.
rangemedia.co
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
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This is caused by adults not maintaining their pertussis (whooping cough) vaccines.
You should be getting a Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine every 10 years.
We have a baby coming in the family (my first grand nephew!), so my husband and I both got vaccinated this week.
You should be getting a Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine every 10 years.
We have a baby coming in the family (my first grand nephew!), so my husband and I both got vaccinated this week.
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is caused by adults not maintaining their pertussis (whooping cough) vaccines.
You should be getting a Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine every 10 years.
We have a baby coming in the family (my first grand nephew!), so my husband and I both got vaccinated this week.
You should be getting a Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) vaccine every 10 years.
We have a baby coming in the family (my first grand nephew!), so my husband and I both got vaccinated this week.
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NEW: ICE had initially planned a limited pilot program to hire bounty hunters and private investigators for immigrant tracking.
The agency has now scrapped that plan and is going all-in, removing the program’s spending cap and offering up to $280M to any given contractor.
From @dell.bsky.social
The agency has now scrapped that plan and is going all-in, removing the program’s spending cap and offering up to $280M to any given contractor.
From @dell.bsky.social
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
NEW: ICE had initially planned a limited pilot program to hire bounty hunters and private investigators for immigrant tracking.
The agency has now scrapped that plan and is going all-in, removing the program’s spending cap and offering up to $280M to any given contractor.
From @dell.bsky.social
The agency has now scrapped that plan and is going all-in, removing the program’s spending cap and offering up to $280M to any given contractor.
From @dell.bsky.social
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
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Minors shouldn't be forced to be parents. Period. If you donated to DCAF this year, know that you helped 118 people under the age of 18 access abortion care. Read more in our 2025 DCAF Annual Report: dcabortionfund.org/annual-repor...
2025 Annual Report — DC Abortion Fund
dcabortionfund.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Minors shouldn't be forced to be parents. Period. If you donated to DCAF this year, know that you helped 118 people under the age of 18 access abortion care. Read more in our 2025 DCAF Annual Report: dcabortionfund.org/annual-repor...
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If this doesn't make you smile and laugh (and maybe even tear up a bit), well, not sure why we're connected online at all.
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
If this doesn't make you smile and laugh (and maybe even tear up a bit), well, not sure why we're connected online at all.
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Abedini posted on LinkedIn:
“I’m relieved to share that I was released from custody tonight. It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had. My sincere thanks to my friends and colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, the Middle East Studies Association”
“I’m relieved to share that I was released from custody tonight. It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had. My sincere thanks to my friends and colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, the Middle East Studies Association”
OU professor released following ICE detention while traveling to conference
OU professor Vahid Abedini detained by ICE while traveling to academic conference, sparking concerns over valid visa status.
www.news9.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Abedini posted on LinkedIn:
“I’m relieved to share that I was released from custody tonight. It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had. My sincere thanks to my friends and colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, the Middle East Studies Association”
“I’m relieved to share that I was released from custody tonight. It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had. My sincere thanks to my friends and colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, the Middle East Studies Association”
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At a Democratic shadow hearing on Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and mass deportation, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) didn’t hold back.
Waters & Crockett’s Fiery ICE Speeches
At a Democratic shadow hearing on Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and mass deportation, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) didn’t hold back.
www.huffpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
At a Democratic shadow hearing on Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and mass deportation, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) didn’t hold back.
Imagine being this publicly incompetent/criminal and allowed to keep your job.
NEWS: The criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James are gone. A federal judge ruled that the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as the lead prosecutor was illegal.
DOJ could try again, but there are other headwinds.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
DOJ could try again, but there are other headwinds.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Imagine being this publicly incompetent/criminal and allowed to keep your job.
Olivia Nuzzi being a Harper’s letter signer is just too much. I hated her so much already what do you want from me universe?!
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Olivia Nuzzi being a Harper’s letter signer is just too much. I hated her so much already what do you want from me universe?!
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
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Black women are down 297,000, but men’s gains have surged to +621,000. That’s a 324,000 widening of the gender gap in two months—a 34% jump. Since February, the swing between black women’s losses and men’s gains approaches 1 million jobs.
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Black women are down 297,000, but men’s gains have surged to +621,000. That’s a 324,000 widening of the gender gap in two months—a 34% jump. Since February, the swing between black women’s losses and men’s gains approaches 1 million jobs.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
If your anger is high and capacity low: Last week I ordered a $3 nut and had them deliver it the same day for no additional cost. This same day free local delivery might just be in big cities but the person gets paid and when you’re free you can return a sack of different nuts they need to put back.
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 3:57 PM
If your anger is high and capacity low: Last week I ordered a $3 nut and had them deliver it the same day for no additional cost. This same day free local delivery might just be in big cities but the person gets paid and when you’re free you can return a sack of different nuts they need to put back.
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SCOND, 3-2, says North Dakota’s 6-week abortion ban violates the state’s constitution, but because 4 justices are required to strike down a state law, the ban goes back into effect.
www.ndcourts.gov/supreme-cour...
www.ndcourts.gov/supreme-cour...
![Access Independent Health Services, Inc., d/b/a Red River Women's Clinic, et al. v. Wrigley
No. 20240291
Per curiam.
191]
"IT]he supreme court shall not declare a legislative enactment unconstitutional unless at least four of the members of the court so decide." N.D.
Const. art. VI, S 4. Justice Crothers, joined by Justice McEvers and District Judge Narum, concluded N.D.C.C. ch. 12.1-19.1 is unconstitutionally vague under article I, § 12 of the North Dakota Constitution. Justice Tufte, joined by Chief Justice Jensen, concluded N.D.C.C. ch. 12.1-19.1 is not unconstitutional under either article 1, § 1 or article I, § 12 of the North Dakota Constitution. The effect of the separate opinions in this case is that N.D.C.C. ch. 12.1-19.1 is not declared unconstitutional by a sufficient majority and that the district court judgment declaring N.D.C.C. ch. 12.1-19.1 unconstitutional and void is reversed. See MKB Mgmt. Corp v. Burdick, 2014 ND 197, I 1, 855 N.W.2d 31 (judgment enjoining enforcement of law reversed after the Court did not reach a sufficient majority to declare the law unconstitutional).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreic5yukownixpoocgnmab7fahmvmvbdjlk5kfenitfzrwsacil344e@jpeg)
![Crothers, Justice.
[94] The State appeals from a judgment declaring N.D.C.C. ch. 12.1-19.1
violates the North Dakota Constitution. The district court did not err when it decided the law, which criminalizes abortion with exceptions, is unconstitutionally vague. The vagueness in the law relates to when an abortion can be performed to preserve the life and health of the mother. After striking this invalid provision, the remaining portions of the law would be inoperable.
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Because the unconstitutional part of the law cannot be severed from the rest, N.D.C.C. ch. 12.1-19.1 would be invalid in its entirety. We would affirm the district court's judgment on these grounds only and decline to address the](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreidiwgjcj3agh5xevtjjuki7abvki5kau2dkqkmcbgjqfjktt3m3ny@jpeg)
![Tufte, Justice.
[964] I depart from the majority opinion in two significant respects. First, the majority opinion extends to the natural rights guaranteed by Article I, Section 1, the more stringent vagueness standard we have previously reserved for First Amendment rights that receive the additional protection of the chilling effect doctrine. Second, the majority opinion extends our precedent to allow a pre-
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enforcement facial challenge in which the challengers present only hypothetical future conduct as the basis for the testifying experts' disagreement about the legal application of the statute. The parties' presentation of witnesses having expertise in medicine or history who disagree about lawyer-crafted hypotheticals is not a sufficient basis for a court to declare a statute unconstitutionally vague. The majority opinion recognizes a protection against chilling exercise of the natural right asserted here, without adequately framing the right or interpreting what scope of protection it may provide to abortion. As I explain below, even assuming a stricter vagueness standard should apply to statutes implicating a constitutional right, we must first interpret both the constitutional provision and the statute to resolve whether the statute conflicts with or otherwise implicates the constitutional right. I conclude the statute challenged here prohibits abortion only in circumstances that are outside the scope of the Section 1 right of "defending life" and "obtaining safety," and thus does not implicate Section 1 such that a more stringent vagueness standard may apply under Section 12. Chapter 12.1-19.1, N.D.C.C., is not void under our ordinary test for vagueness.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreibj7v3fwu46exltyhvinmjsumy3cvlfe6scl2oefutt4cdoco7utq@jpeg)
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
SCOND, 3-2, says North Dakota’s 6-week abortion ban violates the state’s constitution, but because 4 justices are required to strike down a state law, the ban goes back into effect.
www.ndcourts.gov/supreme-cour...
www.ndcourts.gov/supreme-cour...
I’m the designated reader in our family for the Nuzzi RFK Jr trash fire and while I often overprotect my partner from disturbing info, it’s taking all my strength not to send them the latest because no one should be alone in having to read that about the person in charge of our country’s health.
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I’m the designated reader in our family for the Nuzzi RFK Jr trash fire and while I often overprotect my partner from disturbing info, it’s taking all my strength not to send them the latest because no one should be alone in having to read that about the person in charge of our country’s health.
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“Health officials in Gaza reported at least 24 people killed and another 54 wounded, including children.”
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“Health officials in Gaza reported at least 24 people killed and another 54 wounded, including children.”
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NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
Cook County becomes the first county in the US to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income • The TRiiBE
On Thursday, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved the FY 2026 budget, which includes $7.5 million to fund the county’s guaranteed basic income program.
thetriibe.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
Tired of coming up with your own lies because you’re too busy running drug, gun, and/or sex trafficking operations out of the sheriff’s office? Invest in AI.
NEW: Body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent in Chicago using ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images,” Judge Ellis reveals in a scathing written ruling.
Story here:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/i...
Story here:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/i...
Injunction ruling provides new look at ‘Blitz,’ from tear gas to agent using ChatGPT to help write report
A federal judge on Thursday issued a scathing opinion that takes a deep dive into the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” revealing new information glean…
www.chicagotribune.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Tired of coming up with your own lies because you’re too busy running drug, gun, and/or sex trafficking operations out of the sheriff’s office? Invest in AI.
We got lucky getting into a relatively affordable preschool that accepts 2 year olds, but our monthly bill is still way higher than this number.
Families with two children now spend an average of $2,252 per month on child care.
November 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
We got lucky getting into a relatively affordable preschool that accepts 2 year olds, but our monthly bill is still way higher than this number.
Jonathan Greenblatt will likely find a way to communicate how appalling it is to make swastikas great again, but take notice how much time he (doesn’t) spend on the anti-Black danger here.
November 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Jonathan Greenblatt will likely find a way to communicate how appalling it is to make swastikas great again, but take notice how much time he (doesn’t) spend on the anti-Black danger here.