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Kay Whitlock

@kwhitlock.bsky.social

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Writer. Activist. Co-author "Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States"

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · Feb 11

My latest for @inquest.bsky.social ...and yes, we can ultimately win, if we are willing to work in transformative ways. It will require the best we have in ourselves, but along the way, we may become quietly courageous in ways that will surprise and energize us. inquest.org/this-is-how-...

This Is How You Win the Culture Wars | Kay Whitlock | INQUEST

Faced with violence and authoritarianism, survival demands prioritizing relationship building over reactivity and solidarity over silence.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 3d

Despicable. He seeks to win the votes of cowards who are willing to sacrifice trans people on the altar of political opportunism and indifference. Up to us to shatter his grandiose dreams.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 3d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 5d

Carceral control/confinement without due process. Expands the carceral state and ensures a indefinite, even lifetime confinement. Shame on the Dems who are supporting this.

NPR @npr.org · 5d

President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.

Some Democrats share Trump's goal of forcing more homeless people into medical care

President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot emphasize this enough.

Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 5d

Connect with your people offline. Take the chats to signal but also take your close relationships offline entirely. We need to be connected when they shut this all down.

What’s your organizing plan if things go dark? Where do you meet? Who picks up what work? How do we communicate?

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 6d

Based on what we know about past flotilla punishment if they are doing this to her they are doing much worse to Arab, Muslim & Black and people of color flotilla members.

Contact your government representatives & those of any country you are connected to to demand IMMEDIATE release for all of them.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 6d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 6d

"Most police contacts are initiated by residents: almost 30 million people initiated contact with police in 2022. However, only half of these people ever reported possible crimes. More often, they were seeking help. ... [M]ost calls to the police would be best directed elsewhere."

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 6d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 6d

"[A]s is the case in the adult criminal legal system, the racially disproportionate confinement of children starts with policing, not criminality. ... [W]hite youth and youth of color have similar patterns of offending when it comes to weapons possession, alcohol and other drug use, and fighting."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people’s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 6d

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 7d

The inhumanity staggers the imagination in so many ways. This is one of them.

Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 7d

My mom was on Medicaid with her Alzheimers. Medicaid pays medical bills directly. It does not send checks to people, you fucking stooge. And you MUST be legal to obtain it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

REPORTER: US law already prohibits giving healthcare to illegal immigrants

LEAVITT: Are you denying that Medicaid money has never gone to illegal aliens?

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 9d

As Octavia E. Butler wrote to herself, “When you have nothing to say, don’t worry. Simply say nothing.”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

Today is the release day of Gazan physics student Wasim Said's memoir of life under the genocide. 🧪

You should grab a copy. #BookSky

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Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide

I didn’t write this to make you cry.Not for you to tell me: “Poor you.”I write this so I can hang these words around your neck—to make you bear the responsibility of my perspective,the responsibility ...

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 9d

I am genuinely bewildered by the "we have bike paths and brunch, farmers' markets and green mountains don't send troops to our city" line of argument....

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10d

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 10d

Peace through war --- well, and "strength." He should've just said, "Und auch: Arbeit Macht Frei!"

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks, YES! And thanks, @truthout.org.

YES! Media @yesmedia.bsky.social · 11d

We deeply mourn the ending of the regular publication of YES! Magazine. Yet the magazine's incredible legacy will live on: The Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism, which is stewarding YES!’s digital archives, has launched a monthly YES! Newsletter.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10d

Meanwhile, Des Moines students stage a walkout to protest their superintendent's detention www.desmoinesregister.com/picture-gall...

A crowd of teenage students walk on a brick path beneath trees. Some hold signs—one says "ICE MELTS UNDER RESISTANCE."

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10d

NEW: Des Moines schools superintendent Ian Roberts was told by his immigration attorney in March that his immigration case had "reached a successful resolution" and been closed.

On Friday he was arrested by ICE.

Mr. Ian Andre Roberts
I hope this letter finds you well. I am writing to inform you of the closure of your immigration case. It has been my pleasure to represent you throughout this process, and I am pleased to report that your case has reached a successful resolution.
Should you have any further questions or require assistance in the future, please do not hesitate to reach out.
Once again, thank you for choosing Jackeline Gonzalez, Attorney at Law, PLLC for your immigration representation. I wish you continued success and happiness in all your endeavors.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at 281-984-4146 or jg@attorneyjg.com
Respectfutly.
Jackeline Gonzalez, Esq.
Founding Partner
Jackeline Gonzalez Attorney at Law, PLLC

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 10d

“Why is it that Palestinians have been forced to negotiate an end to their genocide?”

Trump’s Gaza Plan Is Mere “Repackaging of Genocide” for Israel’s Benefit: Diana Buttu

After a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump unveiled a 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip on Monday that aims to end Israel’s war on Gaza, free the ...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11d

Whew, what a day? Popping in here for a minute to share that we have opened up more slots for my "How to Create A Personal Archive" Communiversity session happening on Saturday [in person]. We can use a bigger room to accommodate more people. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...

Communiversity Catalog: How to Create a Personal Archive — Interrupting Criminalization

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Pritzker: "For Donald Trump and the MAGAs in Congress, this is not about fighting crime or public safety ... this is about consolidating power in Donald Trump's hands. What he plans to do with that power now or during the 2026 elections should worry all of us."

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 12d

*copy that “was”

Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 12d

Contraband in the bookshelves! Many years ago, when I was in Denver County jail for 30 days, I had a copy of Shakespeare’s plays that were confiscated as contraband! Beware contraband!

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 16d

The Barbed Wire conducted an in-depth review of court records and statements thus far in the July 4 Prairieland case in which 17 people have been charged related to a shooting at an ICE facility — and found holes that call into question the government’s narrative.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/24/n...

‘None of It Makes Any Sense’: New Details in the July 4 ICE Attack Show Holes in Feds’ Case

Repeated changes to the official narrative after the July 4 attack have shrouded the investigation.

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