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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE
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Jewish, trans, abolitionist name-your-own-price IL lawyer. Forever loving @mistymotors.net. No legal advice; not your lawyer. Free Palestine. She/her.
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We just passed 60,000 followers, and I am so honored. This is beyond my wildest dreams, and I am grateful beyond words. I never set out to have a platform this size. I appreciate every one of you more than you know.

For new followers, here's a few posts about my work here and irl.
If a Black man said he'd done cocaine off toilet seats everyone would call him a thug and demand he spend the rest of his life in prison.

If a trans person said they'd done cocaine off toilet seats everyone would say this was proof trans people are unstable and need to be institutionalized.
February 13, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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A quite modest ask, don’t you agree?🤲
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-mot...
February 12, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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$250 between my kid's lives in hunger and shelter. My kids bodies are collapsing from lack of food, and now the cold has increased the destruction of their bodies
We need food🥹
We need blanket🥶🥶
If 10 people donate 25, we will get the amount
Vetted
@mommunism.bsky.social
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February 12, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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This is what the Epstein class has pushed about trans people. Every accusation a confession.

"We're not the groomers," the elites cry, "its the tr***ies you want!"

#3E
Apparently being trans is "inherently sexual" and "what you do in your bedroom is your business, but you need to leave it there and not try to force the rest of us to normalize this" and I "shouldn't be around children" because I will "confuse them" by showing them "alternative lifestyles."
I love when an attorney says that I'm "trying to normalize a minority" and my client hiring me is "proof they're an unfit parent" because I'm trans.
February 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Apparently being trans is "inherently sexual" and "what you do in your bedroom is your business, but you need to leave it there and not try to force the rest of us to normalize this" and I "shouldn't be around children" because I will "confuse them" by showing them "alternative lifestyles."
I love when an attorney says that I'm "trying to normalize a minority" and my client hiring me is "proof they're an unfit parent" because I'm trans.
February 12, 2026 at 9:58 PM
I love when an attorney says that I'm "trying to normalize a minority" and my client hiring me is "proof they're an unfit parent" because I'm trans.
February 12, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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Here I post about being an openly trans lawyer, the US legal system and carceral abolition, antizionist Judaism, our conures (Kathryn Janeway and Tuvok, yes we're Trekkies, and I call them the "Parrotlegals"), and life with Crohn's Disease. I'm really glad you're here!
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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And every so often my gorgeous and brilliant wife @mistymotors.net, the best automotive journalist in the world and a writer for @theautopian.bsky.social, mentions me from time to time. I definitely married up!
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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Or it might be because I've written a couple of books, including a memoir about growing up trans in a conservative homeschooling family.
‘I was an abomination’: Trans lawyer shares difficult coming out experience in new memoir | Illinois Public Media
Sheryl Weikal’s parents were deeply conservative, and for many years she and her sisters were homeschooled. At eight years old, she had never heard the word “transgender,” but she understood that ther...
will.illinois.edu
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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Or it might be because I am suing Eileen O'Neill Burke, the Cook County State's Attorney, for appointment of a Special Prosecutor who will investigate and prosecute crimes committed by ICE and CBP agents during Operation Midway Blitz in Chicagoland.

unraveledpress.com/cook-county-...
Cook County State’s Attorney has “taken no action whatsoever” against feds, new lawsuit alleges
The suit seeks the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate potentially unlawful conduct by federal agents in Illinois.
unraveledpress.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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If you've heard of me, it might be because I sued the state of Illinois so trans people could practice law without being deadnamed, misgendered, or subjected to genital inspections, and we won.
Transgender lawyer wins suit for declaration that trans discrimination violates attorney ethics rules
The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.
www.abajournal.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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I also do free representation for racial justice, anti-ICE, trans rights, and antigenocide protesters who are arrested. I take no government funding because the Legal Services Corporation, the agency that funds legal aid in the US, prohibits its grantees from representing undocumented immigrants.
Can LSC Grantees Represent Undocumented Immigrants?
www.lsc.gov
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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Illinois is also one of 42 states that means tests and charges for the public defender in criminal cases, so I represent people who cannot afford or do not qualify for the public defender. (Those fees, by the way, go to the state's general fund, NOT the public defender's office.)
You Have the Right to an Attorney, but It Might Cost You
Approximately 40 states allow courts to charge for the use of a public defender, acting as an additional punishment for those who cannot afford to pay.
www.thenation.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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I run a name-your-own-price, pay-what-you-can law practice in Illinois. Illinois has no right to counsel in eviction, foreclosure, debt collection, or divorce/child family cases, so I represent people facing homelessness, custody battles, or domestic violence who otherwise couldn't afford lawyers.
Civil Right to Counsel
Access state research reports detailing existing authority for appointment of counsel in various types of civil proceedings, as well as other civil right to counsel resources.
www.americanbar.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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We just passed 60,000 followers, and I am so honored. This is beyond my wildest dreams, and I am grateful beyond words. I never set out to have a platform this size. I appreciate every one of you more than you know.

For new followers, here's a few posts about my work here and irl.
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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@leftistlawyer.com Please help me save my mother.
My mother needs an urgent surgery,
and I have no way to save her on my own.
Please, don’t let her suffer.
Help us before it’s too late.
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February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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🚨FROM GAZA URGENT🚨
We are facing death, struggling just to survive. We live on filthy dirt in a small, flooded tent. We eat leaves; there is no healthy food, and we have contracted intestinal diseases.
We need $200 to buy a tent cover, food, and emergency medicine.
chuffed.org/project/1580...
February 12, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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When a corporation can be arrested and thrown in prison for committing a crime ill believe theyre people under American law. Until then fuck off lol
Yes citizens united was the right ruling. Corporations are a legal entity or in essence a legal person. That has been how we have viewed corporation since the legal definition of a corporation was etched into law.
February 12, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Timeline cleanser.
February 12, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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I’m going to win the war on protein. I eat nothing but beef tallow dipped in pork fat rolled inside a chicken stuffed in a duck. My family doesn’t talk to me anymore. I smell like a used wig from the 1700s.
February 12, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Corporations are not people my dude. That is insanely gross capitalist bullshit.
February 12, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Citizens United supporter says what?
February 12, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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I'm an out trans person who was born in Texas & lives in Washington State. I haven't transitioned legally or medically, but I'm in multiple databases as trans. Just requesting a birth certificate copy could endanger me if I lose the copies I already have.
Fuck the SAVE Act. It's racist, transphobic, xenophobic, and misogynist.

"Just get a birth certificate" is nonsense drivel when the federal government is accusing US citizens of having falsified birth certificates with no evidence besides the fact they're racialized.
February 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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I need just $50 to feed my baby 🍼
There is no food, no milk, and no warmth to protect us from the cold ❄️
My baby sleeps hungry, and this is my only cry for help 💔
Any donation or share could save a small life 🤍🕊️
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-mot...
February 10, 2026 at 5:09 PM