Jim Raffensperger
@jimraff.bsky.social
No relation to Brad
Find little sparks of joy to spite the horrors.
Find little sparks of joy to spite the horrors.
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Last night, the FBI's Counterterrorism Division appeared to open an inquiry into me in response to a video President Trump did not like.
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Last night, the FBI's Counterterrorism Division appeared to open an inquiry into me in response to a video President Trump did not like.
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Missouri AG, seeing petition signature gatherers having success in challenging the latest Gop gerrymandering of the state, baselessly tells ICE the petition workers are illegal immigrants, so they'll go jump them and interrupt their work.
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
Missouri attorney general involves ICE in push to halt anti-gerrymandering group
The attorney general did not provide any evidence to support her claims, which the campaign called false.
www.kansascity.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Missouri AG, seeing petition signature gatherers having success in challenging the latest Gop gerrymandering of the state, baselessly tells ICE the petition workers are illegal immigrants, so they'll go jump them and interrupt their work.
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
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I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
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Gorgeous colorizations of trans history images,
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
Coloring the Past - Eli Erlick
Using recent breakthroughs in photo editing techniques, Eli colorizes, restores, and digitizes photos from queer and trans history. The following images are originally from 1897-1973.
elierlick.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Gorgeous colorizations of trans history images,
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
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A Biden-era senior policy official shares surprising facts about the immigration system and concerning changes under the Trump administration.
bit.ly/3LSrLet
bit.ly/3LSrLet
An Insider’s View of the Immigration System
A former senior immigration policy official offers insight into how the system works and highlights urgent problems that must be addressed.
www.brennancenter.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A Biden-era senior policy official shares surprising facts about the immigration system and concerning changes under the Trump administration.
bit.ly/3LSrLet
bit.ly/3LSrLet
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Looking for a way to help this holiday season? The fabulous Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (FRIDAY BLACK; CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS) and Proyecto Faro are raising money for families in Spring Valley & Rockland County, NY, who've been targeted by recent ICE raids. Learn more and if you're able, donate here:
Donate to Support Families Devastated by I.C.E, organized by Nana Adjei
For the last several years, with your help, during the holiday season we’ve raised mon… Nana Adjei needs your support for Support Families Devastated by I.C.E
www.gofundme.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Looking for a way to help this holiday season? The fabulous Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (FRIDAY BLACK; CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS) and Proyecto Faro are raising money for families in Spring Valley & Rockland County, NY, who've been targeted by recent ICE raids. Learn more and if you're able, donate here:
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To quote the person who filmed this unconscious mom who was tazed while already in zip ties in front of her small child and then tossed her like a corpse into the trunk: “this is fucked up”
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
To quote the person who filmed this unconscious mom who was tazed while already in zip ties in front of her small child and then tossed her like a corpse into the trunk: “this is fucked up”
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Trump released the Epstein files the right way.
Ezra Klein and Mike Johnson.
Trump released the Epstein files the right way.
Ezra Klein and Mike Johnson.
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Trump released the Epstein files the right way.
Ezra Klein and Mike Johnson.
Trump released the Epstein files the right way.
Ezra Klein and Mike Johnson.
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"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
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Eetz a vunderbahr life!
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Eetz a vunderbahr life!
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
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THIS IS IT.
THIS IS THE ONE.
FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THE SURVIVORS ALWAYS.
Help make this go viral. Please.
THIS IS THE ONE.
FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THE SURVIVORS ALWAYS.
Help make this go viral. Please.
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
THIS IS IT.
THIS IS THE ONE.
FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THE SURVIVORS ALWAYS.
Help make this go viral. Please.
THIS IS THE ONE.
FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THE SURVIVORS ALWAYS.
Help make this go viral. Please.
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Fri 11/21: join Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, @nicolechung.bsky.social, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, @melissafebos.bsky.social, Robert Jones Jr., Denne Michele Norris, host @briangresko.bsky.social & me for 100 Days of Creative Resistance. We'll talk about staying creative in this terrible time. Free!
100 Days of Creative Resistance Live
With Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Nicole Chung, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Melissa Febos, Robert Jones Jr., Celeste Ng, & Denne Michele Norris
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November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Fri 11/21: join Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, @nicolechung.bsky.social, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, @melissafebos.bsky.social, Robert Jones Jr., Denne Michele Norris, host @briangresko.bsky.social & me for 100 Days of Creative Resistance. We'll talk about staying creative in this terrible time. Free!
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Cowardly fools. Damned us all for nothing. Didn’t get naught but a cheap song. If they were gonna cave they could’ve just done it at the start and saved folks some pain. But now they did nothing and got nothing and wasted time.
The Cave Caucus?
@rosen.senate.gov - NV
@baldwin.senate.gov -WI
@fetterman.senate.gov - PA
@hassan.senate.gov - NH
@ossoff.senate.gov - GA
@senangusking.bsky.social -ME
@peters.senate.gov - MI
@durbin.senate.gov - IL
@shaheen.senate.gov - NH
@rosen.senate.gov - NV
@baldwin.senate.gov -WI
@fetterman.senate.gov - PA
@hassan.senate.gov - NH
@ossoff.senate.gov - GA
@senangusking.bsky.social -ME
@peters.senate.gov - MI
@durbin.senate.gov - IL
@shaheen.senate.gov - NH
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Cowardly fools. Damned us all for nothing. Didn’t get naught but a cheap song. If they were gonna cave they could’ve just done it at the start and saved folks some pain. But now they did nothing and got nothing and wasted time.
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NOW IS THE TIME TO CONTACT CONGRESS! NO CAVING!
CONTACT THEM NOW HERE:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
CONTACT THEM NOW HERE:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Cancel GOP healthcare cuts and end Trump’s shutdown
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
NOW IS THE TIME TO CONTACT CONGRESS! NO CAVING!
CONTACT THEM NOW HERE:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
CONTACT THEM NOW HERE:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.
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Tagging helps.
It drives me nuts when "Big Accounts" send out messages like, "Don't cave, Senators!" without tagging, you know, senators. How is that making a difference?
So, thank you @bradleywhitford.bsky.social
It drives me nuts when "Big Accounts" send out messages like, "Don't cave, Senators!" without tagging, you know, senators. How is that making a difference?
So, thank you @bradleywhitford.bsky.social
Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.
November 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Tagging helps.
It drives me nuts when "Big Accounts" send out messages like, "Don't cave, Senators!" without tagging, you know, senators. How is that making a difference?
So, thank you @bradleywhitford.bsky.social
It drives me nuts when "Big Accounts" send out messages like, "Don't cave, Senators!" without tagging, you know, senators. How is that making a difference?
So, thank you @bradleywhitford.bsky.social
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You think THIS is the time to take the pressure off Trump, @schumer.senate.gov?
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
You think THIS is the time to take the pressure off Trump, @schumer.senate.gov?
@durbin.senate.gov DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY BILL THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE ACA SUBSIDIES.
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
@durbin.senate.gov DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY BILL THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE ACA SUBSIDIES.
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CALL:
@schumer.senate.gov
@booker.senate.gov
@cortezmasto.senate.gov
@durbin.senate.gov
@fetterman.senate.gov
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
@hassan.senate.gov
@senangusking.bsky.social
@ossoff.senate.gov
@shaheen.senate.gov
@markwarner.bsky.social
202-224-3121
TELL THEM NOT TO FOLD.
@schumer.senate.gov
@booker.senate.gov
@cortezmasto.senate.gov
@durbin.senate.gov
@fetterman.senate.gov
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
@hassan.senate.gov
@senangusking.bsky.social
@ossoff.senate.gov
@shaheen.senate.gov
@markwarner.bsky.social
202-224-3121
TELL THEM NOT TO FOLD.
John Fetterman, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jon Ossoff, Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and of course Chuck Schumer. Maybe others not top of mind. Not all responsible will publicly vote for the cave - that's not how this works.
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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A.C.2020. I originally created this series to express the anxiety and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over time, I also began to address my other anxieties and visual observations.
More here:
tinyurl.com/9vuucnfa
#AC2020 #comic #visualessay #COVID19 #COVID #balloons #relationship
More here:
tinyurl.com/9vuucnfa
#AC2020 #comic #visualessay #COVID19 #COVID #balloons #relationship
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A.C.2020. I originally created this series to express the anxiety and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over time, I also began to address my other anxieties and visual observations.
More here:
tinyurl.com/9vuucnfa
#AC2020 #comic #visualessay #COVID19 #COVID #balloons #relationship
More here:
tinyurl.com/9vuucnfa
#AC2020 #comic #visualessay #COVID19 #COVID #balloons #relationship
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Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Judge Set to Rule Thursday in Case Centering on Federal Immigration Agents’ Use of Force: ‘I Could See Inside the Barrel’
Protesters, clergy members and others who say they’ve been directly impacted by a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs will testify before a federal judge weighing wh...
news.wttw.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
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my friend Grace is the woman who stood up to the guy in the Nazi SS uniform in those viral videos youve probably seen- he broke her nose with a beer stein - please share & donate and give her a hand with medical expenses, recovery and potential expenses gofund.me/72cb1a415
Donate to Support UGA Student Assaulted by Nazi in Downtown Athens, organized by Alexandra Lang
Hello,
My name is Grace Lang, and I am a 23 year old U… Alexandra Lang needs your support for Support UGA Student Assaulted by Nazi in Downtown Athens
gofund.me
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
my friend Grace is the woman who stood up to the guy in the Nazi SS uniform in those viral videos youve probably seen- he broke her nose with a beer stein - please share & donate and give her a hand with medical expenses, recovery and potential expenses gofund.me/72cb1a415