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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals

@leftistlawyer.com

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Proudly trans and Jewish pay-whatever-you-can lawyer in IL. Happily gay married to the love of my life. No legal advice here; not your lawyer. Free Palestine. My memoir is out now! She/her.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 14d

In less than a month (10/22 at 1:00 pm), I will be celebrating yet another 29th birthday. And I want all of you to celebrate with me. I'm having a mutual aid themed Zoom party and you can all be at invited!

All you have to do to get an invitation is either:

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Sep 5

Hello Thriends! My birthday is coming up (October 22) and I want to celebrate getting old with all of you! I'm hosting a Zoom hangout on my birthday and I want you all to join me. All you have to do to get the Zoom login info is... (Cont)

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 16h

A fair number of problems seem downstream from the fact that the best way to be a human is to grow, change, and evolve but the best way to be successful online is to never change and always double, triple, and quadruple down every time you are wrong.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 11h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 13h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 9h

I signed @qasimrashid.com's petition and I hope you'll join me.

c.org/NyjMch5spL

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Demand the United States Recognize Palestinian Statehood

c.org

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 10h

No one:

Seriously, nobody:

Not a single soul:

The @forward.com:

forward.com/opinion/7749...

Should Trump get a Nobel Peace Prize for Gaza?

Trump saw stars aligning for the US to assert power in the Middle East — now the task is to keep Israel, Hamas and the Palestinians in line.

forward.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 11h

Mercy and my chosen sister Sahreen both think I should start a YouTube or TikTok channel. I am, however, old, boring, and not terribly telegenic, plus I have very little time, so I would only want to do it if I had enough viewers to support my practice. SO...if I started a channel, would you watch?

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s7arrrajrami.bsky.social @s7arrrajrami.bsky.social · 17h

Our campaign is struggling, no donations yet 💔
Odai was severely injured by quadcopter over a year
He’s still in pain, fighting infection, and needs urgent treatment
We need urgently $275 for medicine and painkillers
Please, help us save his leg and ease his suffering
tinyurl.com/HelpSaharsFa...

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jheya Ⓐ @jheya.goodgirls.onl · 12h

thats what they do isn't it? it's always the same thing, no where in the world we're looking

ppl without guns being told to respect the people with guns pointing them in their faces, throwing them to the ground, beating them, shooting them, killing them.. always told to respect the humanity of both

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 12h

I know they do and I HATE IT

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 12h

I knew what Sheryl was gonna drive at here, but they basically do pass bills like this and a lot of politicians do talk like this both Democrats and Republicans, that's what's so fucking infuriating.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 12h

How would you feel about a politician's statement saying that we must recognize the humanity of *both* ICE agents and their detainees, or saying ICE is allowed to detain and deport people but how they do so matters,

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 12h

or saying that ICE agents have a right to self defense and their detainees have a right to dignity?

That would be both-sides bullshit, right? Fuck ICE. Abolish ICE. There's no moral equivalency between paramilitary thugs and their kidnapping victims, right?

This post is about Palestine.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 13h

I feel like it's important to see how they're manufacturing consent for genocide and that's why I post their drivel. But you're right: afterwards I feel like I need to take a shower in bleach

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15h

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 13h

My wife is fucking amazing and I don't deserve her.

That's it, that's the post.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 14h

US lawyer John Yoo wrote a series of memos for the Bush administration in order to create a legal cover for torture.

He suffered no negative consequences. He later was made Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 14h

Yup.

thedispatch.com/article/do-f...

Do Foreign Countries Have Military Bases in the United States?

Not exactly, though the U.S. does host detachments of foreign militaries.

thedispatch.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 15h

No, I'm not saying it's a good thing. I don't think that at all. But this isn't a Trump problem, it's a military industrial complex problem, and we should probably say that.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 15h

We already have similar deals with Israel, Singapore, and Taiwan, among others. Hell, Singapore has a facility at the same base Qatar is building theirs.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 15h

I don't know why everyone thinks it's new or novel that a US-subsidized petrostate vassal that we arm with our weapons and use to project our power across SWANA is building a training facility here. We're the largest weapons dealer in the world.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 15h

Please stop saying the problem is only Netanyahu. The Israeli electorate is deeply radicalized and this is a major problem.

www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-l...

Netanyahu’s Likud enjoys slight bump in support on heels of Gaza deal, poll shows

Ex-PM Bennett, who has been largely silent on the truce-hostage agreement, sinks to lowest number of Knesset seats in potential election since first being included in Maariv survey

www.timesofisrael.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 21d

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 19h

This article does a decent job.

missingperspectives.com/posts/taylor...

When victimhood becomes a brand: Dissecting the racial undertones in Taylor Swift’s 'The Life of a Showgirl'

"Unfortunately, Taylor’s unrelenting hold on whiteness may just be the third party that puts the nail in the coffin of our otherwise dysfunctional two-person parasocial relationship" – writes Sunny Ad...

missingperspectives.com

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

New feedback is an opportunity to be less harmful, to be more inclusive, to get closer to that ultimate goal.

It's a gift, really.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

But that's also because we're still on the journey. We're learning and growing. And this way of looking at life means every day is a new opportunity. Instead of deciding you're already a good person, realize that each day you can be a better person.

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