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Making photos created through the prism of spirit and heart. Instagram: lesliejyerman Consultant: Communications, writing, administration. Comments my own.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 1h
Over the past five months we've met with more than a dozen pregnant people in ICE detention, some of whom have been detained and shackled without access to medical care.

We're calling for an immediate investigation.
Immigrant rights group calls for removing pregnant women from detention
The American Civil Liberties Union is alleging that pregnant detainees being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in Louisiana and Georgia are being mistreated and receiving inadequate care.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 3h
Commander in Thief
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lesliejyerman @msljy.bsky.social · 3h
They don't care. I have written comments (when articles permit it) and letters to the editor regard their coverage. None have been approved for publication. If ever a newspaper was in need of a "public editor," it's the current iteration of @nytimes.com.
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lesliejyerman @msljy.bsky.social · 7h
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jfklibraryfdn.bsky.social JFK Library Foundation @jfklibraryfdn.bsky.social · 7h
As first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy undertook a restoration of the White House, to show the evolving history of the people who had lived and worked there, calling the work “a question of scholarship.”

Read more about the White House Restoration: jfklibrary.org/whrestoration
"Everything in the White House must have a reason for being there. It would be sacrilege merely to redecorate it—a word I hate. It must be restored, and that has nothing to do with decoration. That is a question of scholarship." - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy on the White House Restoration
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lesliejyerman @msljy.bsky.social · 7h
Another excellent column from @vermontgmg.bsky.social.

"It turns out, in the end, that there’s only one check and balance that actually matters: Good character. Everything else in a constitutional system follows and relies on that simple foundation."
vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 8h
The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...
The only check-and-balance that actually matters
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d
NEWS: ICE arrests Chicago man whose teenage daughter is fighting cancer: “He belongs with her.” I spent yesterday afternoon with Ofelia Torres and her mother, Sandibell, talking about Ruben Torres. Here’s the story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/i...
ICE arrests Chicago man whose teenage daughter is fighting cancer: ‘He belongs with her’
Ofelia Torres has spent almost every day of the past month at Lurie Children’s Hospital, where the 16-year-old Lake View High School student is fighting cancer.
www.chicagotribune.com
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23h
Mike Johnson’s refusal to seat Adelita Grijalva is bigger than just Epstein files. He’s laying groundwork to attempt to prevent winning Dems from taking office if House majority up for grabs in Nov 2026, as I told @briantylercohen.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSRY...
🚨 Trump caught in INSANE scheme to RIG next election
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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thecity.nyc
THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 22h
As masked federal agents target street vendors on Canal Street, THE CITY watched one street vendor being detained.

As the operation carried on, agents were confronted with a spontaneous crowd of protesters.

MORE HERE: www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23h
At least one ICE officer fired gunshots during a traffic stop in L.A., striking a motorist who authorities said threatened them with a vehicle while trying to flee an arrest. A U.S. marshal also was struck by the gunfire.
Shooting by ICE officer in Los Angeles wounds motorist, U.S. marshal
Federal authorities said the driver had threatened officers with a vehicle while trying to flee an arrest.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 23h
Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.
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thecity.nyc
THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 1d
NEW: Chaos erupted in Lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon as dozens of masked federal agents targeting street vendors on Canal Street were met with droves of spontaneous counter- protesters.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...
Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors
Spontaneous protests were met with an armored military vehicle and assault rifles in a crackdown that escalated the Trump administration’s focus on NYC.
www.thecity.nyc
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."
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CNN @cnn.com · 1d
Arizona’s attorney general has sued the US House of Representatives over Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s refusal to seat an Arizona member of Congress – who was elected in late September – due to the government shutdown.

Read more: https://cnn.it/3KZp9Ly
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1d
Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
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nymag.com
New York Magazine @nymag.com · 2d
Every weekday on Broadway, undocumented immigrants line up to enter 26 Federal Plaza. They enter harshly lit hallways where ICE agents mill around — waiting to take people away. For our cover story, Stephanie Keith captures the anguished scenes of arrest in downtown Manhattan. buff.ly/N6JNPUP.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 2d
SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.
www.theatlantic.com
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lesliejyerman @msljy.bsky.social · 2d
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lesliejyerman @msljy.bsky.social · 2d
End the #EpsteinShutdown. Seat @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social

Release the #EpsteinFiles
wyden.senate.gov Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d
New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
www.nytimes.com
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lesliejyerman @msljy.bsky.social · 2d
The @nytimes.com coverage was a disgrace.
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lesliejyerman @msljy.bsky.social · 2d
From @sulliview.bsky.social

"Asked to comment on the thousands of anti-Trump protests around the nation, a White House spokeswoman kissed them off...

...At some news organizations, the response seemed almost as blasé."

open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
‘Who cares?’ About 7 million people, that’s who
Media coverage of Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ protests included the New York Times’s shrug
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lesliejyerman @msljy.bsky.social · 2d
A profile in courage.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d
As "No Kings Day" draws to a successful close, a reminder of the delirious, mad real king, George III, America said "no" to before it said "no" to the delirious, mad wannabe king today, Donald Trump. (Jonathan Groff is insanely good in this.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5JA...
You'll Be Back - Hamilton (Original Cast 2016 - Live) [HD]
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lesliejyerman @msljy.bsky.social · 3d
The "No Kings" demonstrations should have been the lead story. Instead, it was on page 23. And in a quick read box on the website.
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lesliejyerman @msljy.bsky.social · 3d
And that put the article in the top spot, pushing a piece on the "No Kings" demonstrations to page 23.
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